With its twisting branches bearing multiple species of fruits and vegetables, the Tree of Life is a textile motif that has enjoyed popularity for centuries, all over the world. Symbolically speaking, ...

What looks printed is often generations of inherited skill patiently woven, stitched, and bound by hand across India’s living ...

Small and simple, the circle is made up of 25 embroidered dots, takes nine minutes and 37 seconds to make and uses 9.3 metres of thread. This circle, called ‘Tambourine', is one of the most ...

Sept. 25: Traditional designs woven in thread centuries ago, will now glitter in gold and silver in international markets, thanks to Waheeda Rahman, the only jewellery designer of the Northeast.

Its an old saying which somewhere goes like this that artist are the people who bring life in a non-living thing. The art itself deals with an unusual business, that makes things not only affordable ...

Every garment has a story to tell. Pose the right questions, and it will reveal the political mood, socio-economic conditions and the very zeitgeist of its period and place of origin. New Traditions: ...

Two years ago Zaheer Abbas showed his design collection called ‘Ajrakistan’ at the Sindh Cultural Festival in Karachi. The ajrak fabric was tweaked into skirts, hot pants, tunics and even statement ...

The talk by architect-designer Edric Ong on ‘Iban Textiles of Malaysian Borneo: the Indian connection’ at Apparao Galleries was insightful for the fact that he tried to draw the similarities in the ...

In a country rich in traditional textiles, motifs and crafts, it’s a tragedy that little has been done to document their histories, relevance and the role they play in the lives of those who create ...

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