Patola: Part 5: Caring for your saree Shoba NarayanFeb 15, 2020February 24, 2020194 Caring for your Patan Patola How do you care for this delicate and expensive Patola saree? Says textile expert, Belaa Sanghvi, “When natural dyes are Read more
Patola: Part 4: Weaving history and ecosystem Shoba NarayanFeb 12, 2020February 24, 2020251 The Patola is the stuff of hype and legend. How do you care for your saree? Read more
Patola: Part 1: Making the magnificent Patola Shoba NarayanFeb 11, 2020February 24, 2020206 How do you weave the Patan Patola? What are the steps and techniques? Here, we explore the painstaking and lengthy techniques that together create the Read more
Patola: Part 2: Patan the place Shoba NarayanFeb 11, 2020February 1, 2021159 Patan today is a clean quiet town. Its citizens still talk about the glory days when it was called Anhilwara. It is on this ancient Read more
Patola: Part 3: Imagining the whole saree Shoba NarayanFeb 7, 2020February 1, 202157 These two brothers-- Satish Chandra and Paresh Kumar Salvi-- were the only weavers in Patan who did all the processes by themselves: the tying, dyeing, Read more
Tangaliya: beaded wonder Shoba NarayanFeb 7, 2020February 1, 2021385 The bead-like dots that mark the Tangaliya weave are a painstaking process that involves wool yarn and twists. Read more
Gujarat’s culture of ornamentation Shoba NarayanFeb 5, 2020February 24, 2020180 The culture of ornamentation in Gujarat, which shows in its textiles also. Read more
Gujarat: a land of astonishing diversity Shoba NarayanFeb 5, 2020February 1, 2021180 What is it about Gujarat that makes the state so diverse with respect to textile styles and techniques? Read more
Welcome to the Gujarat Edition Shoba NarayanFeb 5, 2020February 1, 2021200 The weaves of Gujarat take many forms. Ranging from the block prints of ajrakh to the tie-dye bandini work to the double ikat weaves of Read more