INDIGO: The Coveted Natural Dye

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  Indigo, the magical shade of blue admired around the world, is the oldest and most widely used natural dye. Neel, the colour blue was extracted from the plant indigofera...

INDIGO: The Coveted Natural Dye

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HANDLOOM DAY 2020

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In the last few years, khadi (khaddar) the handspun, handwoven fabrics, as well as handloom textiles, have lost their unique tactile quality and therefore their market share. Most of the...

HANDLOOM DAY 2020

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Celebrating HANDLOOM

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Celebrating HANDLOOMS and our artisans who continue to have the skills to produce textiles that we admire in Museums. Each region offers its own unique textiles, techniques, colour palettes and...

Celebrating HANDLOOM

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Celebrating the Fabric of Freedom

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Mahatma Gandhi saw the revival of local village economies as the key to India's spiritual and economic regeneration and he envisioned homespun khadi (coarse, handspun and handwoven cotton, worn by...

Celebrating the Fabric of Freedom

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Celebrating HANDLOOMS

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The government has decided to scrap the office of the Development Commissioner Handlooms with the vision of ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’ It is true that these boards had become...

Celebrating HANDLOOMS

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