Join Geeta Khandelwal for an introduction to the distinguished world of Indian textiles. As the Indian economy grows and access to saris of synthetic fabrics become more cost-effective, the survival ...

Unlike the currently trending buzz about sustainability and recycling, India has had traditions in this direction since the Indus Valley civilisation, where clothes were reused and recycled. One such ...

In the village of Nattarasankottai in Tamil Nadu, 11 students of the KMSC Girls Higher Secondary School pleated, folded, embroidered and sewed under the watchful eye of their craft teachers and local ...

"Paintings, people really don’t understand. They don’t really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house," said Faith Ringgold, an American artist, known for ...

Geeta Khandelwal started sewing her own clothes as a teenager, which led to a lifelong fascination with the rich world of Indian textiles. She draws on over four decades of experience making quilts in ...

Chennai: The Varija Art Gallery at DakshinaChitra Museum, Muttukadu, is hosting an exhibition of quilts handcrafted by Siddi women from Karnataka. The Chennai connect is that these quilts were made ...

In the village of Nattarasankottai, Tamil Nadu, students gather skeins of colourful thread and excitedly sit to work. This is their chance to showcase their creation to the world. With the India ...

Atlanta's cultural canvass is a colourful montage comprising the conflux of many individual achromatic strains. Of these, the Asian contribution is sizeable (they account for nearly four per cent of ...