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Suraiya Hasan Bose (1928–2021) was an Indian textile conservator, [1] designer, and manufacturer, who worked to preserve traditional Indian textile art and techniques.She worked with the Indian Cottage Industries Emporium and the Indian Handloom and Handicrafts Export Corporation before establishing her own textile manufacturing unit to produce traditional Indian textiles.
Traditional Indian clothing for women across the country in Indian includes saris worn with choli tops; a skirt called a lehenga or chaniya worn with choli and a dupatta scarf to create an ensemble called a ghagra choli; while many south Indian children traditionally wear Langa voni. [citation needed].
The British also impacted the textile industry in India because of industrialization and using their own mills instead of artisans in India. This led to the unemployment of many Indians. Later, Gandhi called for Indian people to make and wear their own hand-spun clothing, called khadi cloth, as a sign of resistance against the British. [21]
Between 1982 and 1992, Singh curated a series of seven exhibitions, titled "Vishwakarma" (Hindi for "all-creating", meaning the personification of the ultimate reality, and in the current context "master artisan"), which for the first time captured the diversity of Indian textile arts under one roof. [3]
Rahul Jain is an Indian textile designer, art historian, and author. [1] Born in Delhi in 1963, [2] he founded ASHA, a textile workshop engaged in promoting the traditional Indo-Iranian weaving techniques in Varanasi in 1993 and is reportedly contributing to the revival of the dying art form of silk weaving on traditional Indian drawlooms. [3]
Indian Handcraft Series is a series of pamphlets produced between 1940 and 1945 [1] by the Education Department of the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indian Handcraft Series booklets outlined techniques and practices used by indigenous creators to produce baskets, clothing and other goods. [ 2 ]
Nelly Homi Sethna (née Mehta; 1 November 1932 – 1992) was an Indian weaver, textile designer, researcher, writer and a crafts activist. [1] She worked on the crossroads of Scandinavian modernism and Indian crafts tradition, which shaped her guiding philosophy. [2]
Indian textile artists (2 C, 6 P) E. Embroidery in India (1 C, 27 P) R. Indian rugs and carpets (9 P) S. Saris (1 C, 54 P, 1 F) Indian shawls and wraps (14 P) T.
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