Once a handloom citadel, Sunder Nagri now in ruins

On National Handloom Day, Delhi’s famous handloom colony looks back at its past glory as its weavers live on the edge of destitution due to ‘government apathy and ignorance’

Six Yards and 365 Days to host event celebrating Indian handloom sarees

More than 30,000 women from India and around the world have joined the online platform of Six Yards and 365 Days, in an effort to encourage the value and preservation of handlooms

Weaving the hard yarns

The National Handloom Expo Exhibition at Janpath has turned out to be a damp squib for weavers who have put up their products on sale

The six-yard saga

An exhibition that gives a glimpse of prints and patterns of vintage handloom textiles Four decades back, Pavithra Muddaya and her mother started reviving antique crafts and preserving c. That journey is documented in ‘The Story of Vimor’, an exhibition at India International Centre. Vimor — which means pure in Indonesia, as does pavithra — […]