"Indian textile designs express dazzling inventiveness and creativity, from the woven silks of royalty to the simple block-printed patterns. This authoritative sourcebook overflows with colour and ...

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It was Brigitte Singh's father-in-law, a major collector of Rajasthan miniatures, who gave her the Mughal-era poppy cloth connected to Shah Jahan. Textiles designer Brigitte Singh lovingly lays out a ...

What looks printed is often generations of inherited skill patiently woven, stitched, and bound by hand across India’s living ...

Textiles designer Brigitte Singh lovingly lays out a piece of cloth embossed with a red poppy plant she says was probably designed for emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, four centuries ago.

Textiles designer Brigitte Singh is trying to keep alive the Indian art of block printing that flourished in the 16th and 17th centuries - Copyright AFP Wakil KOHSAR ...