Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Kasavu is a technique used in handlooms of Kerala, with very fine threads of gold or silver used in weave to make border lines and designs on silk and cotton fabrics. This technique later spread to most of India and the Kasav technique was developed for many other fabrics across India.
Woodblock, India, about 1900 An Indian printing block at the Horniman Museum.Identical for Indian ethnic groups like chhipi, chhimba, chhapola. Printing patterns on textile is closely related to other methods of fabric manipulation, such as by painting, dyeing, and weaving.
The fabric of mundu-sari is cotton and is always woven by hand. Kara or simple line designs adorn the bottom of these saris, while at times small peacock or temple designs embellish the pallu. The mundum neriyatum is also known as Set mundu, Kasavu mundu, Mundu-sari, set-sari, or set veshti. The veshti is another version of the sari which ...
Thiruvathirakali dancers dressed in Kerala sari. Kerala sari is regarded as the cultural costume of women of the Malayali community. [2] The grace and appeal of the golden borders contrasting with the otherwise plain white mundum neryathum of Keralite women has come to symbolize Malayali women.
Zinc was extracted in India as early as in the 4th to 3rd century BCE. Zinc production may have begun in India, and ancient northwestern India is the earliest known civilization that produced zinc on an industrial scale. [44] The distillation technique was developed around 1200 CE at Zawar in Rajasthan. [34]
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya (1977) History of Science and Technology in Ancient India: The Beginnings with a foreword by Joseph Needham. Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and culture, Volume 4. Fundamental Indian Ideas in Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences and Medicine
C. S. Unnikrishnan (born 25 July 1962) is an Indian physicist and professor known for his contributions in multiple areas of experimental and theoretical physics. He has been a professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research [1] Mumbai and is currently a professor in the School of Quantum Technology at the Defence Institute of Advanced Technology [2] in Pune.
The art of kalai (kalhai or qalai) is the process of coating an alloy surface such as copper or brass by deposition of metal tin on it. [1] The word "kalai" is derived from Sanskrit word kalya lepa, which means "white wash or tin". [2]