Our focus is to provide a livelihood for women from tribal and rural communities and craft is the medium for achieving this”, say Sunita Suhas and Suhas Ramegowda, co-founders, IndianYards, a social enterprise in Coonoor..

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Discover Pochampally, a weaving village in Telangana, where traditional Ikkat fabrics are crafted. Explore the vibrant process and the efforts to preserve this rich textile heritage.

The first leg of the Textile Trail, was at a place that had a lot to do with indigo. This repeatedly kept reminding of another walk I did back in February through the alleys of Old Delhi.

Get a fresh perspective on your wildlife shots with inputs from Kalyan Varma. The naturalist-cum-wildlife photographer conducts travel photo workshops to places from Borneo to Madagascar. Photo courtesy Kalyan Varma.

Shilpa Sharma, Founder, Breakaway, claims, “India is waking up to the concept of niche and slow travel. There is a sizeable segment of travellers worldwide who want to be able to explore niche experiences and concepts in addition to sightseeing around the country.

INDIAN slow-travel firm Breakaway specialises in authentic, immersive trips such as a six-day Kashmir By Hand small-group adventure that will introduce visitors to pashmina wool amid the country’s far, Himalayan-edged north.

We have had an amazing time. I cannot thank you enough for all you have done to make our stay extraordinary. Everything went like clockwork. Vikram our driver was wonderful. We had excellent guides.

Given our friend Susan Weltman's recommendation we had the highest expectations of Break-Away. These were equaled and exceeded. We could not have asked for a better experience.

This was my fifth trip to India and the best – though I think I always say that!  The last trip, to Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Gujarat and Bombay/Mumbai was also a textile lover/weavers dream come true, especially Gujarat.

In between all the gota patti, jersey half-saris, embellished gowns and subtle sheers, we tend to forget the splendour, understated opulence and perennial nature of the quintessential Indian handloom.

In January 2015 I joined 3 good friends to travel to Kutch with Breakaway Tours making all the plans and arrangements. One of our party was Indian and both her husband and I have long lived and traveled in India.

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We flew directly into Srinagar from Bengaluru and checked into our charming, well appointed homestay in the city. Although it was directly in the path of the rampaging flood waters in 2014, the premises, located within a walled enclosure..

There are just two weeks remaining until the Ganesh Chaturthi Festival in Mumbai. It's one of the city's biggest and most anticipated festivals of the year. More than 200,000 idols of Lord Ganesh will be worshiped and immersed in

For centuries India has been seen as a land of sacred natural sites interwoven with age-old stories. One belief tells us that the Hindu god Shiva once meditated so intensely that beads of sweat flowed from him. These drops formed a pool that in turn overflowed to form the sacred Narmada river, which still flows across the plains of central India.

The feature on Maheshwar was published in The Quilter, No 174, Spring 2023 issue. The Quilter is the magazine of the Quilter's Guild of  The British Isles.

“Evam Piljen Wiedemann was a mother-figure for many Toda women. She encouraged them to embroider textiles for sale at a time when they embroidered shawls for themselves and family members”, says Anuradha Halan, a young woman who continues Evam’s endeavours from the Wiedemann family home in Ooty, in the Nilgiri Mountains, Tamil Nadu state, South India.

“Lodhra is a sentiment that connects us with rich traditional heritage and to our roots going back to ancient times”, says Dr Pushyamitra Joshi, Founder, EcoFab, Indore, Madhya Pradesh state, India. His work involves working with rural artisans to promote natural dyeing and hand-block printing as well as personally create a range of natural-dyed fabrics.

Our focus is to provide a livelihood for women from tribal and rural communities and craft is the medium for achieving this”, say Sunita Suhas and Suhas Ramegowda, co-founders, IndianYards, a social enterprise in Coonoor, Tamil Nadu state, in South India. Coonoor is located in The Nilgiris, literally Blue Mountains, a scenic biodiversity hotspot that is home to indigenous communities, dense mixed forests, tea plantations, a variety of animal and bird life.

The Madurai Sungudi is a sari with tie-dyed designs. It is produced by descendants of weavers who migrated from Saurashtra in Gujarat, a state in west India, to Madurai in Tamil Nadu, a state in South India, about four centuries ago. It tells a fascinating story of migration and assimilation.