12 things that you perhaps didn’t know about Ashavali
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...
khadi places
The Length and Breadth of Khadi
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
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
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...
