The Interpretation of Yarns ; Threads and Voices Interweave As Experts Meet in the Pink City to Stitch Together the Nation's Living Traditions.
India Today › January 21, 2009
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Can textiles tell stories? In a new effort to understand identity and culture, experts all over the world are studying textile art, including in India, and literally spinning a new yarn.
Siyahia team of writers, editors, researchers and publishers is at the forefront of the movement which arranged the Mantles of Myth: The Narrative of Indian Textiles, a celebration of Indian textiles held in Jaipur.See the full content of this document
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The Interpretation of Yarns ; Threads and Voices Interweave As Experts Meet in the Pink City to Stitch Together the Nation's Living Traditions.
The congregation brought together sociologists and economists, artisans and artists, fashion designers and authors, to unravel thestoriesof cultures and communities through textiles.
It is important to study and preserve the traditions that created our textiles because they are often the only surviving evidence of very many ways of life not documented in any other manner,says M...See the full content of this document
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