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woman with a black and white check scarf inspired by the gamcha textile

Drawing from street style: Artisanal fashion in...

The gamcha is one of India’s most unassuming yet iconic textiles—worn by rickshaw pullers and laborers on the streets of Kolkata. Here’s what it means, and the handwoven cotton scarves...

Drawing from street style: Artisanal fashion in...

The gamcha is one of India’s most unassuming yet iconic textiles—worn by rickshaw pullers and laborers on the streets of Kolkata. Here’s what it means, and the handwoven cotton scarves...

Anni Albers room dividers at the Woven Histories exhibition, MoMA

Putting the “art” in artisanal fashion: Four th...

I think of my work in artisanal fashion as selling art. As a friend and client put it, my necklaces make her “feel terrific and feel like she’s wearing art”....

Putting the “art” in artisanal fashion: Four th...

I think of my work in artisanal fashion as selling art. As a friend and client put it, my necklaces make her “feel terrific and feel like she’s wearing art”....

Traditional nakshi kantha wall art with spinning wheel motif

From Humble Beginnings to High Fashion (A Brief...

Between household chores, rural Bengali women came together to create magic from worn-out cloth — breathing new life into saris, and into each other. A 500-year tradition, still alive in...

From Humble Beginnings to High Fashion (A Brief...

Between household chores, rural Bengali women came together to create magic from worn-out cloth — breathing new life into saris, and into each other. A 500-year tradition, still alive in...

Silk sari kantha shawl from Premaasi collection

Five Reasons These Silk Sari Kantha Shawls Alwa...

A designer in New Delhi buys pre-loved vintage saris and transforms them into stunning masterpieces. It takes 15 to 30 days to create a silk sari kantha shawl. Here are...

Five Reasons These Silk Sari Kantha Shawls Alwa...

A designer in New Delhi buys pre-loved vintage saris and transforms them into stunning masterpieces. It takes 15 to 30 days to create a silk sari kantha shawl. Here are...

Organic kala cotton shawl from Premaasi Textiles

Don't Leave Home Without It — Your Organic Kala...

Kala cotton is simply the best — entirely rain-fed and pest resistant. It is an ancient, short-staple cotton indigenous to Kutch, in western India, and it has been around since...

Don't Leave Home Without It — Your Organic Kala...

Kala cotton is simply the best — entirely rain-fed and pest resistant. It is an ancient, short-staple cotton indigenous to Kutch, in western India, and it has been around since...

The Moon Scarf — itajime clamp-dyed silk shibori

The Moon Scarf — A Celestial Collaboration Betw...

The ‘moons’ were created using itajime — clamp-dyeing — one of a class of Japanese resist-dye processes known as shibori. And the story behind this remarkable artisan-designer collaboration is worth...

The Moon Scarf — A Celestial Collaboration Betw...

The ‘moons’ were created using itajime — clamp-dyeing — one of a class of Japanese resist-dye processes known as shibori. And the story behind this remarkable artisan-designer collaboration is worth...