Wooden printing blocks, traditionally used for textile printing, are now being creatively repurposed in various crafts and ...

To keep up with growing demands and reduce production costs and time, many villagers have started using chemical dyes and the screen printing method to produce the famed textile style. The modern ...

It is 5 AM and Kiran is hurrying to get the morning meal ready. Dawn is just about to break in Jhag, a small Rajasthan village about 40 km from Jaipur, and the young woman is eager to finish all ...

Woodblock printing is a quintessential example of art transcending history and border throughout the South Asian subcontinent. It originated in China, and remained to be the most non-communal method ...

A traditional textiles factory in Rajasthan India is bringing the ancient art of block printing back to life - and a French-Indian woman is leading the charge. Brigitte Singh says she believes that ...

If there was ever a model of a small-scale family business that embraces creative and strategic thinking in near equal measure while making beautiful, soulful goods, Block Shop is it. Sisters Hopie ...

In a day and age where most everything we purchase is mass-produced, there’s something magical about the beauty found in the slowness of handmade goods. Block printed textiles are lovely in part ...