Aavaran, a 17-year-old homegrown textile centre in Udaipur ... It is a mud-resist block printing technique that creates designs by printing a resist pattern using blocks. The fabric is dyed ...

“I have been doing block printing work for the past 20 years with my husband,” 40-year-old Musarrat Fayyaz tells The News on Sunday (TNS). “Our family has been associated with the centuries ...

Bilgrami’s atelier is over four decades old and is a vital channel for skilled artisans to continue their traditional profession of dyeing, weaving, block printing and thread spinning by hand.

Jiang Xun calls them "the reflection of our civilization", an observation that would be on the money even if he were talking about the mobile devices of today that have become so much a part of ...

In a small, mud-walled workshop on a winding street in the labyrinth of Tashkent’s Old Town, delicate silk scarves imprinted with bold designs flutter in the air. “Seven block-printing stamps were ...

I fell in love with the art of block printing on a trip to India many years ago. My goal was to see the intricate process in person, but sadly a stomach bug prevented me from doing so. Thankfully ...

This walled area is over 300 years old, and the historical heart of Jaipur ... Sanganer has been brought into the folds of the city, but block printing remains at the beating heart of the area ...