Weaving stories - Photo exhibition on handlooms in Mumbai

Images of the Monsoons

For the drama and colour of the South West Monsoons ...

Monsoon clouds over the islands of the Mahatma Gandhi Marine National Park, Andaman Islands

River Aghanashini under an overcast sky as viewed from the crest of the Western Ghats,
Uttara Kannada District, Karnataka

Paddy field, Uttar Kannada district, Karnataka

Rain drops collect on a spider's web, Mt. Harriet National Park, Andaman Islands

Rain from the window, Wandoor, Andaman Islands

A photo exhibition on handlooms in Bangalore

The journey from the cotton field to the handloom fabric is one of Andhra Pradesh’s most well known – the journey of many journeys: from fields to spinning wheels, from the white of cotton to nature’s blues, greys and yellows; many yarns to one elaborate warp, the warp that then makes it to the loom.
The skylight falls on the loom as the shuttle moves across in rhythmic continuity. The eyes focus, the foot moves and then the hand; thread by single cotton thread, the weft merges effortlessly with the warp – two identities dissolve magically into a third and a skilled old master might also add the extra weft for that intricate jamdani.
Craft, technology, tradition, family, livelihood…Weaving is all this and much more.

Come join us in this journey!
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DASTKAR ANDHRA
presents

WEAVING STORIES
in
Light, Shade and Colour
By
Pankaj Sekhsaria
A visual essay on the cotton handloom fabric
Printed on hand woven fabric
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Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore
May 3-6, 2008

Pench Tiger Reserve

Mist in the early morning woods

The rock python

Small green bea eater

Hanuman langur at a water hole

Sambar and fawn

Chital in the early morning mist

And the tiger...