Farrukhabad’s Vastra Chhapai tradition combines hand-carved wooden blocks and textile printing, sustaining a historic craft industry.
In a day and age where most everything we purchase is mass-produced, there’s something magical about the beauty found in the slowness of handmade goods. Block printed textiles are lovely in part ...
A tiny town known for the exquisite Kalamkari style of textile printing - which earned it a GI tag - may be losing its sheen, thanks to a spurt in the use of modern and chemical methods that threaten ...
“I have been doing block printing work for the past 20 years with my husband,” 40-year-old Musarrat Fayyaz tells The News on Sunday (TNS). “Our family has been associated with the centuries-old art ...
These are the days of graphic emblazoned t-shirts and digital printed dresses. And yet, uniqueness continues to reign in the fashion spectrum. The heritage craft of creating designs on fabric using ...
The Heritage Trust in Vadodara, India organized a half day event on Sunday at Bodhi, a textile printing studio in Makarpura Gidc. 25 participants, including several artists from the space studio ...