Vanessa Walton couldn't find nursery bedding she really liked. It was 2006, she was expecting her first child, and everything in stores seemed too garish and bright, too juvenile, too covered with ...

Bhubaneswar: On Thursday, when chariots roll across the country and abroad to celebrate Rath Yatra, many will be showcasing the applique work of craftsmen from Odisha’s famed Pipili village in Puri ...

Based on the applique art of Odisha, an Odisha Administrative Service (OAS) officer and writer Raja Parija have come up with a coffee-table book, titled as 'Celebrating Colours'. Released by Handloom, ...

Bhubaneswar: Despite Odisha's globally renowned indigenous art forms like pattachitra, Pipili appliqué work, tarakasi silver filigree, and dhokra metal casting, none of them are officially recognised ...

In Orissa, appliqué work is an inseparable part of the temple tradition. Its main centre of production is in and around Pipili, a tiny town near Bhubaneswar. Traditionally, the appliqué work by the ...

We are on the Bhubaneswar-Puri road, roughly 40 km from Puri, the temple city of Orissa famous for the Rath, or chariot, festival at the Jagannath Temple. Endless vistas of hills and fields suddenly ...

Vol. 21, Studies in the History of Furniture and Design Presented to Peter Thornton (1985), pp. 165-173 (9 pages) Furniture History, the journal of the Furniture History Society, is an extensively ...

Sewing small pieces of colourful cotton cloth, a group of women give shape to a scene from Haridwar ghats, where lakhs of people congregate every day to wash away their sins in the Ganga. On a thick ...