Dance of the LooM: portrait of a female weaver
Her name is Kisbar Jahan, her age, 32. She is better known as master weaver, Abdul Mubeen’s wife. She has a daughter and a son....
Shoba Narayan
Sights and Sounds of Chanderi Town
Nobody in Chanderi Wears a Chanderi By which I mean, nobody in Chanderi town wears a Chanderi saree. I don’t know why I was...
Clinking Bangles and Clapping Looms
The door was open. A baby sat on the threshold. Inside was the click clack of a loom. I peered in. A pretty young woman...
The Clothing of Royalty
It was Delhi-based textile and art expert, Alka Raghuvanshi who put the thought in my head. Chanderi in Mughal Miniatures? “If you look at old...
