Explore Bandhani textile, a 5,000-year-old Indian craft that inspired the bandana, its history, intricate process, regional ...
Long before ragas, chicken tikka or Bollywood movies were exported from India, there was brisk international demand for the subcontinent’s textiles. These items didn’t simply trickle from local ...
Textiles designer Brigitte Singh is trying to keep alive the Indian art of block printing that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries - Copyright AFP Wakil KOHSAR ...
Brinda Dudhat, the founder of Morii Design in India, creates modern motifs supported by age-old techniques. By Sarah Archer This article is part of our Design special section about the reverence for ...
The book features items from one of the world's foremost private collections of Indian textiles, the Karun Thakar Collection, together with key pieces from two recently united American collections, ...
"Indian textile designs express dazzling inventiveness and creativity, from the woven silks of royalty to the simple block-printed patterns. This authoritative sourcebook overflows with colour and ...
As an obsessive compulsive, I am not averse to miniscule detail. But the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s latest exhibition ramps detail up to the Nth degree. “Woven Wonders: Indian Textiles from the ...
The Silk Route was a network of ancient trade routes that connected China, India, Central Asia and the Mediterranean. It ...
“I spend my life uncovering hidden histories and hidden stories,” says Karun Thakar, one of the world’s most prolific textile collectors. Sitting under a rare, luminous piece of Indian embroidery in ...
HINDUPUR, India, Feb 11 (Reuters) - India is hoping its labour-intensive textiles and apparel (T&A) companies will help it address a jobs crisis, and has promised to pump about $2 billion into the ...