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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

With Rs 3.5 crore turnover last year, Alka Sharma’s Aavaran is seeing success and has recently launched a store in Bengaluru, after one each in Udaipur and Jaipur.‍ Dabu is an ancient mud resist block ...

The elegance is in the imperfections with this ancient yet totally on-trend hand-printing process Ajrak linen cushion, €129, Mind the Gap; mindtheg.com Ceramic stool, €53.33, Anthropologie; ...

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 ...

Don’t be surprised to spot Ajrakh, one of the oldest block printing techniques in the world, on your next shopping jaunt in the US or the UK. Thanks to a number of independent ethical brands, the ...