Art Kaleidoscope

In trying to understand the tribal weavings of Myanmar, I am reading some notes on the technicalities of weaving. The material that I find on the internet is a complex … Continue reading →

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A link to a blog article by Rosemary Crill featuring pieces that V&A museum will NOT be showing in the upcoming Fabric of India exhibition this fall. http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/fabric-of-india/the-reject-files Even the … Continue reading →

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Most are now woven on power looms but a few are still made on back-strap looms.A Glimpse of Stunning Mizo Textiles – The Puanchei The Puanchei: The Puan is the … Continue reading →

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    Java. With a lifestyle culture that looked unique even in a short first glimpse. I visited Yogyakarta / Borobudur a few years ago. And in the short stop … Continue reading →

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A 248 page coffee table book with 243 good photographs! Happy reading! jm Jan 2015

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The Ain-i Akbari manuscript, a part of the Akbarnama volumes written by Abu’l-Fazl in 1621 documents various weapons used in the Mughal era. Among the weapons described is the Jamdhar … Continue reading →

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Having never ventured into the world of fine art – modern or classic, I was tentative about the subject. What if I did not understand anything, what if I did … Continue reading →

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No words – just pictures of tiles from an old house built in 1921 for a Barrister from the times when Goa was a Portugese Colony: Old, weathered by a … Continue reading →

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