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Category Archive: Profiles

A Beautiful Yarn: The last ply split braider’s journey from designer to artisan

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With a lush ponytail and what seem like a dozen gold rings, Erroll Pires Nelson certainly has some […]

December 23, 2016 Art, Gujarat, Handmade, India, Jaypore, Profiles, Recycled, Revival, Uncategorized, Wondrous India

Resurgence of ‘Shakti’: Shamlu Dudeja’s Kantha Crusade in Bengal

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Each piece of work is a labour of love, in its patterns, the story of simple women, their […]

June 19, 2015 Bengal, Crafts, Embroidery, History, Profiles, Revival, Textiles, Women

Katna’s Kantha: Crafting Lives in Murshidabad, Bengal

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Slowly one stitches together the layers of frayed fabric Slowly, step by step, does one tread the path […]

June 2, 2015 Bengal, Crafts, Embroidery, inspiration, People of India, Profiles, Sarees, Textiles, Women

A Sari Draping Workshop with Rta Kapur Chishti

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We had a whale of a time hosting the Sari School Workshop with Rta Kapur Chisti in Delhi […]

May 30, 2015 Crafts, Delhi, Events, People of India, Profiles, Sarees, Textiles

Designer Dhvani Behl’s ‘Flora for Fauna’ on Jaypore

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Growing is “having or showing life”. Deeply inspired by nature, Dhvani Behl of Flora for Fauna brings to […]

May 25, 2015 Art, Artist, Crafts, Profiles, Women

“All forms of Art are born from one’s roots”

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The name Maqbool Fida Husain has become almost synonymous with contemporary Indian art, and deservedly so, for no […]

April 13, 2015 Art, Artist, Profiles

Raja Ravi Varma and The Royal Gaekwad Collection

The Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum, housed within the Lakshmi Vilas Palace in Vadodara, India, carries some of the […]

January 23, 2015 Art, Artist, Gujarat, History, Monuments, Profiles

The Nomad Lyric: Embroidered Textiles from Kashmir’s Gujjar Bakarwal Tribe

The river Lidder that flows through majestic mountains and meadows near Pahalgam in Kashmir had earlier this year […]

December 11, 2014 Crafts, Decor, Embroidery, History, Homes, inspiration, Jammu & Kashmir, People of India, Profiles, Textiles, Travel, Tribes, Women, Wondrous India

Purkal Stree Shakti Samiti: Empowering Lives in a Himalayan Hamlet

In a rural village outside Dehradun known as Purkal, located in the foothills of the Himalayas, a society […]

November 12, 2014 Crafts, Embroidery, Jaypore, People of India, Profiles, Textiles, Uttarakhand, Women

Mashru Project by Raw Mango: Celebrating A Lost Legacy

The word ‘mashru’ comes from the Arabic word ‘shari’a’ that means ‘permitted by Islamic law’, an allusion to […]

November 5, 2014 Crafts, Gujarat, History, Jaypore, People of India, Profiles, Revival, Sarees, Textiles, Tibet, Weaving

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