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 ...

This week’s entertainment options take us around the globe, from the Oregon coast, to India, to France, to Scandinavia, and to the indigenous regions of Oaxaca, Mexico. You don’t have update your ...

"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 ...

Humble Stitches, Generous Threads: Quilts from Indian Country is a celebration of quilting designs created by students and community members that tell stories of their tribe's cultural history. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The project aims to use crowd-sourced blocks to make patchwork quilts to thank frontline workers. The project aims to use crowd-sourced blocks to make patchwork ‘Happily Busy Hands and a Happily Busy ...

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 ...