Category: Weaving and Artisana

Baluchari Myths

October 2nd, 2020 • Vibha Mitra

Tapestry material was made from Baluchar silks which were originally used by nawabs and Muslim aristocrats of the Murshidabad district as”;” however Hindu noblemen used the raw silk. Baluchar silk…

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Kantha Katha

August 5th, 2020 • admin

Kantha literally means rags. Old sarees stacked together and stitched over with a running stitch. Super soft, mother’s sarees, sarees with all the careworn smells and emotions of a mothers love filters through. Children know surely and instinctitively, their mother’s touch, her breath, her heartbeat. My sister always slept with my ma’s saree clutched in […]

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Prakashi – My Moment

March 27th, 2022 • admin

Pra-Kashi: a display presented by the National Museum in collaboration with the Devi Art Foundation, curated by Pramod Kumar KG and supported by Eka Archiving Services, the exhibition that displays textiles from the Asha Workshop of Varanasi. Rahul Jain a visionary who gave up a World Bank job seduced by the transcendental beauty of our […]

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Prakashi – The Light of Benaras

August 5th, 2021 • admin

Pra-Kashi: A layered term meaning light or from Kashi, Benaras, the holiest of holy cities where Hindus find salvation on the banks of the Ganga. A place where Tulsi and Kabir Das wrote their dohas and Buddhism was preached some distance away. Unity of religions, a place where Muslim weavers with their consummate skill weave […]

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Qissaa Y

April 5th, 2019 • admin

Textile narratives! Legends of the Indian artisan. Regional traditions, culture and history! Qissaa is the yarn, anecdote, the story. The story of the artisan. The weave, the warp, the weft tells a tale. It is a living testimony to the skill and deft manipulations of the weaver. It talks of the transformation of the humble […]

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Talk on Indian Traditional Textiles at Amity

March 27th, 2022 • admin

Something that is so close to my heart. Talking of Indian Textiles! I have worn sarees with elan. Everywhere. The presentation at Amity was a full house and I was touched. A tad long but I enjoyed it tremendously. Some facts I forgot obviously, considering my age, however here it is  

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Tribal Weaves

September 24th, 2020 • Vibha Mitra

Tribal art is the visual arts and material culture of indigenous peoples. Ethnographic art, or, controversially, primitive art, is often ceremonial or religious in nature. India has always been known as the…

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Weaving styles – The price we pay. Why?

October 2nd, 2020 • Vibha Mitra

Kadhwa / Phekwa (North India) ~ Golani / Chalaani (Bengal)The weaving traditions in all textiles work on predetermined designed cards (the jacquard loom) or the embroidery of motifs by hand,…

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