Jamdani, a weaving patten, comes from the Persian word "jam", which means floral and "dani" which means a vase or a container, named after the floral patterns that are seen in Jamdani weaves. The ...

"Gulbadan refers to a woman’s body fashioned after a flower", says Gaurang. Like the name of his collection, the inspiration comes from the forgotten land of Persia. It intricately combines kota from ...

With his unmatched expertise in Jamdani and Indian textiles, Gaurang Shah crafts a timeless tribute to the bonds that unite us. His new collection, Sakhi, is a celebration of sisterhood, tradition, ...

I grew up watching my mother and aunts draping the Dhakai Jamdani sari. There's only one word to describe the weave and that is elegant,' says fashion designer Paromita Banerjee, showing off the ...

Jamdani Festival of Wearable Art is an exhibition, especially curated by Chandra Shekhar Shaha, one of the pathfinders of modern crafting and textile design in Bangladesh. The show presents a ...

The Jamdani Palli on the bank of the Shitalakkhya River in Dhaka’s Demra is enjoying a turnaround after a four-month suspension due to coronavirus outbreak and floods. The artisans are weaving Jamdani ...

Six years ago, an art exhibition spotlighting India’s jamdani weave debuted at Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa. Helmed by textile artist Bappaditya Biswas, the exhibition titled New Horizons: ...

A wearable art woven through centuries before ‘wearable art’ was even a term in fashion-scape is the 2013 UNESCO recognised Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity – the Dhakai Jamdani weave. What ...

Seven years ago, Hyderabad-based designer Gaurang Shah recreated the paintings of Laxman Aelay on saris using Jamdani. “One of the customers was Lavina Baldota, from Baldota (Abheraj) Foundation,” he ...

Today, Jamal Hossain is the proprietor of the Phakhi Jamdani weaving factory in Sonargaon, where he works with 50 other weavers on 25 looms. They used to weave around 25 saris per week, with a thread ...

In this edition of Know Your Handloom, we look at jamdani. The hallmark of jamdani lies in its interwoven motifs. Pics (L-R): @kathatale and @real_weaverstory What is jamdani?The hallmark of jamdani ...

In the book, Woven Wonders of the Deccan, author-researcher Moin Qazi describes the hallmarks of muslin, a cloth so delicate that poets of the Mughal durbars romanticised it with names such as baft ...