Selvedge Stories
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...
TEXTILE ART WITH AN ENVIRONMENT HEART
Image: The bull is part of the Antiquity art panel from the Altamira cave paintings. Image courtesy of Sunetra Lahiri“Forests are the lungs of our planet and trees are at their...
TEXTILE ART WITH AN ENVIRONMENT HEART
Image: The bull is part of the Antiquity art panel from the Altamira cave paintings. Image courtesy of Sunetra Lahiri“Forests are the lungs of our planet and trees are at their...
LOCAL WOOL, ARTISAN WEAVES
Image courtesy of Lalji Vankar Brinda Gill returns as our Blog Guest Editor this week, bringing textile stories and voices from the textile industry in India. A post-graduate in economics, based...
LOCAL WOOL, ARTISAN WEAVES
Image courtesy of Lalji Vankar Brinda Gill returns as our Blog Guest Editor this week, bringing textile stories and voices from the textile industry in India. A post-graduate in economics, based...
