We
took the metro (women only in the first car) to see Threads of Change, Textile
Cultures of North East India at the Indira Gandhi National Centre
for the Arts. The show
featured woven fabrics from remote tribal areas. The instinct
to make something beautiful seems universal. Why else go to the trouble of dyeing
cotton and silk and weaving intricate and sophisticated patterns when simply
functional cloth would suffice?
Then
on to a great lunch at the Craft Museum. The Museum’s textile collection is
fabulous, but sadly is terribly lit, and poorly labelled and displayed. I
especially liked the diamond-gridded embroidered Punjabi Phulkari
patterns,
many in glorious marigold hues, but photography wasn’t allowed…. Here’s a sample
in white from Sanskriti’s Textile Museum along with a few other fabric excerpts.
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