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FLAX CELLO
Image: Flax cello by Tim Duerinck. Image courtesy of Tim DuerinckFlax is best known as the plant from which linen is made and the Belgian town of Kortrijk in West Flanders has...
FLAX CELLO
Image: Flax cello by Tim Duerinck. Image courtesy of Tim DuerinckFlax is best known as the plant from which linen is made and the Belgian town of Kortrijk in West Flanders has...
AN ICONIC HAND BLOCK PRINTING STUDIO
Image courtesy of Padmini Govind “Hand block printing is inherently organic, sustainable and always ethical”, says Padmini Govind, Partner, Tharangini Studio, of the ancient craft of printing motifs and patterns on...
AN ICONIC HAND BLOCK PRINTING STUDIO
Image courtesy of Padmini Govind “Hand block printing is inherently organic, sustainable and always ethical”, says Padmini Govind, Partner, Tharangini Studio, of the ancient craft of printing motifs and patterns on...
EACH FRAGMENT IS PRECIOUS AT PAIWAND
Image: Hand embroidery with textile fragments. Image courtesy of Paiwand Studio.“At Paiwand, we are on a mission to revive handcrafted practices in a new light by introducing waste as a...
EACH FRAGMENT IS PRECIOUS AT PAIWAND
Image: Hand embroidery with textile fragments. Image courtesy of Paiwand Studio.“At Paiwand, we are on a mission to revive handcrafted practices in a new light by introducing waste as a...
THE CALL OF ORANGE WILD RHEA
Image: Clearing the jungle path to forage Orange Wild Rhea stalks. Image courtesy of Abhirup Dasgupta and Ahmad Shaqulain.“My work celebrates loin loom textiles that are woven in a traditional ethos...
THE CALL OF ORANGE WILD RHEA
Image: Clearing the jungle path to forage Orange Wild Rhea stalks. Image courtesy of Abhirup Dasgupta and Ahmad Shaqulain.“My work celebrates loin loom textiles that are woven in a traditional ethos...
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS OF KASUTI EMBROIDERY
Image: A sari with traditional kasuti embroidery featuring different flowers peacocks and temple gateways. Image courtesy Vinay Narkar.“In traditional kasuti attire a variety of motifs are embroidered on the fabric....
CONTEMPORARY EXPRESSIONS OF KASUTI EMBROIDERY
Image: A sari with traditional kasuti embroidery featuring different flowers peacocks and temple gateways. Image courtesy Vinay Narkar.“In traditional kasuti attire a variety of motifs are embroidered on the fabric....
A PIONEER IN PROMOTING TODA EMBROIDERY
Image: Toda embroidery. Image courtesy of Anuradha Halan“Evam Piljen Wiedemann was a mother-figure for many Toda women. She encouraged them to embroider textiles for sale at a time when they embroidered...
A PIONEER IN PROMOTING TODA EMBROIDERY
Image: Toda embroidery. Image courtesy of Anuradha Halan“Evam Piljen Wiedemann was a mother-figure for many Toda women. She encouraged them to embroider textiles for sale at a time when they embroidered...
