Using a variety of blocks to create just one motif, an artisan’s deft hands illuminates a simple piece […]
Category Archive: Organic
That yellow ikat rug you brought from Bali, those dhokra dancers a dear friend gifted to you, your […]
You see them all around you – those complex geometric motifs in red and blue, the floral vines, […]
In 1856, a 14-year old William Henry Perkin invented aniline purple or Mauve, while trying to synthesize Quinine […]
Holi, the festival synonymous with colors, surges the sales of ‘gulal’, balloons and pichkaris (water guns) being sold […]
Once upon a time, roughly in the late ’60s America, if you bought a dress and met with […]
The elegant symmetry of geometric patterns, the waltz of Indigo & madder dyes, and the minor imperfections that […]
Design in India permeates everything we do. Its in our clothes, our buildings, our temples, even in the […]
Koraput – rough, coarse to the touch, yet soft on the skin and completely organic. Like a wildflower’s […]
Designer and scholar Bina Rao, of Creative Bee, talks to Jaypore about her organic dye farm, collaborating with […]
