Having met the little-known people behind the many designs that emerge from its cities and villages, Patrick J. Finn weaves a colourful narrative Patrick J. Finn has travelled across India researching ...
Drive down Mumbai’s thoroughfares, the ones hemmed in by tin shanties and makeshift homes and chances are you’ll spot an intricately hand stitched quilt hung out to air on a rickety balcony or a road ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Ornate blocks, patchworks, denims, lacy trails, dolls, gardens, rainbows, cathedral windows, fall leaves, sunny flowers, checkerboards, spirals and matrix—the range of designs and colours that adorn ...
Each quilt has a story to tell. Do quilts travel to various places to tell these stories? Yes, at least 18 award winning quilts from India Quilt Festival 2019 are ‘travelling’ across the country under ...
Two decades ago, when Anusha Krishnamurthy made her first quilt, she had no idea where it would lead her. “I did not even know it as art,”’ she says. It took her on a journey of emotions and ...