Beyond this, though, the book contains surprisingly few object histories, for a family memoir in an age of Instagrammable nostalgia. It quickly becomes clear that Husain, a well-known BBC ...

Parsis, Zoroastrian immigrants from what was once Persia, have contributed much to the warp and weft of Mumbai's fabric ... a gorgeous new book put together by Bachi Karkaria, inimitable author ...

But the fabric wasn’t the only thing that caught the audience’s attention. Conversations about the book ‘Saris of Memory’ by cultural historian Malvika Singh wove an emotional path through ...

(Do not miss catching a very young Romila Thapar, her aunt and eminent historian of ancient India, in a striped sari among the family photographs in the book.) Singh herself became a key figure in ...

used in clothing and carpets Woven fabrics use a warp and weft yarn on a loom to interlock fibres. Woven fabric Physical properties Working properties Plain weave Threads are woven in a simple ...

It is very versatile in its uses. These two pieces have woolen warp and weft. The starting borders are card-woven, and one has card-woven selvages. (The card-woven selvage provides for a neater edge ...

Dealing with the warp and the weft of it all isn’t easy, as [Fraens] discovered with this build. The main idea with weaving is to raise alternate warp threads, which run with the length of the ...

Tar-o-Pud Museum, a tribute to textile heritage On March 1, the Tar-o-Pud (meaning “Warp and Weft”) Museum, dedicated to the rich history of Iranian textiles, was officially inaugurated within the ...