Having met the little-known people behind the many designs that emerge from its cities and villages, Patrick J. Finn weaves a colourful narrative Patrick J. Finn has travelled across India researching ...

Unlike the currently trending buzz about sustainability and recycling, India has had traditions in this direction since the Indus Valley civilisation, where clothes were reused and recycled. One such ...

Drive down Mumbai’s thoroughfares, the ones hemmed in by tin shanties and makeshift homes and chances are you’ll spot an intricately hand stitched quilt hung out to air on a rickety balcony or a road ...

The Oxford Piecemakers Quilt Guild meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Come learn a new technique called Kawandi Indian hand quilting, taught by Andi Bedsworth. Supplies needed […] ...

"Paintings, people really don’t understand. They don’t really get paintings. Quilts they do understand because everybody has a quilt in their house," said Faith Ringgold, an American artist, known for ...

In the village of Nattarasankottai in Tamil Nadu, 11 students of the KMSC Girls Higher Secondary School pleated, folded, embroidered and sewed under the watchful eye of their craft teachers and local ...

Atlanta's cultural canvass is a colourful montage comprising the conflux of many individual achromatic strains. Of these, the Asian contribution is sizeable (they account for nearly four per cent of ...

The Syosset school district recently approved a petition I initiated to add the Hindu holiday of Diwali as an official holiday on its calendar, allowing hundreds of families to celebrate without the ...