India’s rich array of crafts and the artisans behind it all have countless stories to weave. Anuradha Halan, who has been working with Toda artisans from the Nilgiris, has much to say about about ...

A moodboard in Archana Rao’s studio is filled with photographs, sketches and 3D fabric flowers that hark back to her 15-day trip to the Nilgiri hills in December 2018. Another moodboard has line ...

There are 12 Toda families in the small village of Mullimund in Ooty district. The Toda community is a pastoral community and their specific style of embroidery has been practised for around 3,500 ...

Udhagamandalam: For the first time, a three-month training programme for Toda tribals on their exclusive embroidery work was held in Ooty in the Nilgiris. About 20 Toda women were trained for three ...

Geographic indication expert P Sanjai Gandhi says there is no law prohibiting anyone other than the Toda people from creating GI-tagged embroidery on shawls Shantha.Thiagarajan@timesofindia.comIn Dec ...