Chandauli’s Zari Zardozi craft blends digital design with intricate hand embroidery, creating metallic thread textiles that ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...