Dastkari Haat at Kalakshetra

Coming up next is a meaty and mildly controversial post on how being a good sales person/ store owner often prevents me from being myself. But while I work on editing that piece (don't want to offend anyone) I wanted to quickly share this information.

Dastkari Haat, a craft bazaar, is being held at Kalakshetra in Besant Nagar until the 20th of January. I wish I had posted this earlier, but I've been busy and exhausted doing many shifts at the store. Anyway, some of my suppliers are there and they have some beautiful yardage, sarees, scarves and dupattas. Please find the time to go there- if you like textiles and want to meet the craftsmen who make them, I promise you won't regret it.

This was taken at Mohammed Sabir's leheria stall (stall no. 71). It still amazes me how they get such fine lines in different colours by just tie-dying the fabric.


The mud resist printing process allows for this really cool "shadow" effect. Notice how you can see the colours of the triangular block under the zig-zag shadow block? I don't know the stall number, but ask around for the Chaubundi block print stall.