khadi places Archives - Project LooM

12 things that you perhaps didn’t know about Ashavali

Shoba NarayanSep 19, 2019February 18, 20202

Ashavali is a brocade weave. The work however is called meenakari. By some accounts, weavers from Ashavali moved to Benaras to create the now-famous Benarasi

The Length and Breadth of Khadi

Shoba NarayanSep 18, 2019September 22, 20199

Interview with Anindita Sardar, Creative Director, Taneira How did the khadi collection unfold? Khadi was already there in India but it was looked down upon

Khadi in Kanchi

Shoba NarayanSep 9, 2019March 2, 20200

If you think of khadi silk sarees, particularly those woven in Kanchipuram as these ones have, you cannot escape the Kalakshetra connection. Rukmani Devi Arundale

Portrait of a Weaving Unit in Gujarat

Shoba NarayanSep 9, 2019February 18, 20206

The little-known Ashavali cluster in Ridrol, Gujarat The beauty of India is that every weaving cluster is special, every cluster does something so totally unique