Journal

The mirrors on a good piece of mirror work are held on by thread, not glue — and that single fact separates the real...

An ajrakh saree is printed up to sixteen times before it is finished — and on both sides of the cloth, in perfect register....

Jamdani is called "woven air," and the name is not poetry — it is a description. It is a fine, sheer cotton muslin with...

Cutwork is embroidery that includes the holes. That sounds flippant, but it is the exact definition and the thing that makes it unusual. In...

Turn it over. That is the fastest test there is. A hand block print is made by pressing dye-loaded wooden blocks onto cloth, and...