Patola: Part 5: Caring for your saree
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...
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Patola: Part 4: Weaving history and ecosystem
The Patola is the stuff of hype and legend. How do you care for your saree?...
Patola: Part 1: Making the magnificent Patola
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...
Patola: Part 2: Patan the place
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...
Patola: Part 3: Imagining the whole saree
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,...
