Thirty kilometres apart, two Rajasthan printing towns answered the same question about cloth in opposite ways — Sanganer's fine white syahi-begar against Bagru's earthy...
Block printing has a face for the carver and printer, but rarely for the women who wash and dry the cloth — real wage...
How madder, indigo and pomegranate rind become cloth: the real cost per kilo of natural dye, the invisible mordant, and the monsoon reshaping the...
Almost nobody outside Madhya Pradesh has heard of Nandana — a bold, dabu-based print made in Tarapur and Ummedpura for the Bhil and Bhilala...
Nine hands-on checks, honest price maths and what a GI tag really proves, so you can tell a genuine hand block print from a...
After the 2001 earthquake, the Khatri printers of Dhamadka moved 40 km and built a village named after their craft. Twenty-five years on, the...
