GLOBAL NOMAD: TRAVELLING TRADITIONS OF INDIAN TEXTILES
Two handmade quilted textiles, reflecting centuries of Indian handcraft traditions and the exchange of ideas across millennia, especially among nomadic communities across the world.
How much significance can a single quilt carry? Across cultures women have used remnant textiles to patch and sew coverings for their families - a tradition created out of thrift and necessity, that most often became a personal artistic expression of the dreams they carried while labouring over days and months to create that quilted covering.
Image: detail of Good Earth Textile Art, Quilt 1, Sindhu Ajrak. Image above: detail of Good Earth Textile Art, Quilt 1, Sarnath Brocade quilt.
Passed on within the family, the quilts not only offer comfort against the cold, but also a connection to home, to ancestry, to shared traditions. To a tangible piece of someone’s hands and heart.
How much significance can a single quilt carry? Across cultures women have used remnant textiles to patch and sew coverings for their families - a tradition created out of thrift and necessity, that most often became a personal artistic expression of the dreams they carried while labouring over days and months to create that quilted covering.
Image: detail of Good Earth Textile Art, Quilt 1, Sindhu Ajrak. Image above: detail of Good Earth Textile Art, Quilt 1, Sarnath Brocade quilt.
Passed on within the family, the quilts not only offer comfort against the cold, but also a connection to home, to ancestry, to shared traditions. To a tangible piece of someone’s hands and heart.
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