A Kurta is a comfortable loose dress/shirt worn in countries such as India. They traditionally don’t have a collar and are usually knee length and can be worn as a dress or over loose trousers such as Salwars. It has become popular in the west and has been modified to give it an Indo/Western look. […]
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I love Paisley
On my travels through India in search of textiles I came across Paisley everywhere in some form or another. It’s on the motifs, all throughout their architecture, and so many textual designs have a form of paisley through them! Back in the 1870s, when the west discovered the humble but very practical (and let’s not forget […]
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On my last trip to India I was lucky enough to be around for Diwali – a five day hindu festival also known as “festival of lights”. Whilst the lights at night were spectacular (if you thought the lights of New York City were bright, you MUST visit Jaipur during Diwali as it’s unbelievable), the […]
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