From block prints to big dreams: Haryana women weave success

From block prints to big dreams: Haryana women weave success

In an attic on top of a two-room house, 31-year-old Sundar is block-printing on a five-metre bedsheet with a maroon dye at Rohtak’s Lakhan Majra village in Haryana, which lies around 90 kilometres to the north-west of Delhi. The room, open on three sides with iron mesh, allows gusty and dry summer wind to pass through … Read more

Label Erode’s apparel blends the GI-tagged jamakkalam with Jimi Hendrix’s music

Label Erode’s apparel blends the GI-tagged jamakkalam with Jimi Hendrix’s music

Outfits from Label Erode’s debit collection, jimikkalam | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Once a prominent decor artefact, the tightly knit jamakkalam carpets in bright shades of navy blue, red, green, and white now don a new avatar courtesy Mayank Bhutra’s label, Erode. The GI-tagged Bhavani jamakkalam, crafted in Tamil Nadu’s Erode district is on the … Read more