What is a Kurta?

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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