On Etsy!

New Work!

Hello People! Its been a week away from blogging..... Hope its been a nice new week for all of you.. My last week was full of activities .. doing new things learning new things... and was lost in my own sweet world..... so here am.... with some snippets of what I have been doing...

Some new block prints..

A hand at batik... though I have done one batik art before... I always failed at dyeing the fabric right... so am now am so glad that am starting to get better with dyeing... so I was just hunting and hunting all about dyeing on the internet... I am so thankful to this invention of mankind called "internet"... Because anything I have learnt and know to this day is mostly from the net... so here are someof my batik work...

Just have a closer look you can see birds in them...

And finally, I got this book from the local book store PROVENCE quilts and cuisine... quilts and cuisine .. great combo to eat and sleep..:-)

New block prints!

New block prints to welcome the new month!

It is hand block printed with crewel embroidery !

The detail!

Larger images are on my flickr stream !

I am thinking of listing this soon on etsy... hope I can come up with my listing on etsy soon!

Hope you like them! Happy September!!

Suzani inspired prints!

This is my first two color lino print some time back! though the prints have lot of flaws in them...there is a lot of mismatch of prints... it still attracts me for the boldness and of course the effort! and it reminds me of suzani..... over I which I drool so much... hope to have a suzani stuff some day!!

Back Again!

Well, am back again after a month's holiday to my home country India!!!  It was a great feeling to go home and be with people you love... We had planned  a trip to Jaipur before leaving to India .. the place, I for some reason always wanted to see... maybe because of the art that land is gifted with... and finally I was there...   

We stayed at Barwara Kothi, the place had a history behind it.. its a colonial villa that belonged to the royal family of Barwara... It was a nice experiance.. different from the usual stay at professional hotels....

The breakfast table set for us  at Barwara... loved the block printed table cloth from anokhi.

We did tour most of the forts of jaipur on day one and once we were done with the sight seeing we visited the the anokhi museum of hand block printing... I loved every bit of it...

The blocks of teak wood being carved for block printing...  I was amazed by the intricacy and fineness this talented craftsman has... the image below shows the fine details of his work

Some of the blocks displayed....

Mohammed Iqbal the talented block printer... he is so fast and accurate with the printing... he finishes a piece in no time...

Thats me trying a hand at traditional wood block printing... Though I do block printing , I use lino or foam... it was great to print with large  wood blocks.... I could not be as accurate as him.. he was too good!!

Jaipur is a great place to shop hand made stuff  and colorful fabrics.... There was a store called Soma at the very next building to the hotel we stayed in... and I could directly see it from our room's balcony... Though I was not aware what it was.. I suggested my husband that we should check it out... and when we went there.. we surprisingly found a very nicely set up block printed textile  store which had everything from bed linen to clothes..... It was a nice place to shop ... 

I could not leave Jaipur without buying a block printed bed spread... and so was it 

A small cushion cover from anokhi...

Black batik bed spread with hand embroidery from Jaipur and patta chitra paintings bought at a craft exhibition  in my town..

Miscallaneous buys from my place...

Finally carrying on the memories of Jaipur with a book of Royalty of Jaipur and the piece of fabric I block printed along with the talented Mohammed Iqbal

My move to blogging begins...........

The first post begins with one of my favorite forms of art block printing ,

Galbraith and Paul, Create great hand printed textiles and lighting,rugs ... they have an amazing collection... the site also shows the process  of how they do it... worth a look!

Here are some of the images