Opening day reception :January 16, 2015
Chief Guest :Director General ICCR :Mr satish Mehta
guest of honour: Deputy Director General: ICCR: Mr Asthana
lamp lighting
Being felicitated by ICCR :Mr Asthana(Deputy director general ICCR) hands me a bouquets of flowers
A walk with the Chief
Guest Mr Asthana (Deputy Director General of ICCR)of the evening
In 1930, a few cotton
fragments were retrieved from Al Fustat - harbor of Old Cairo ,dating from the
11th to the 14th century AD. These fragments are the earliest known printed
textiles. The simple patterns printed with small sized blocks, resist dyed in indigo
and madder, bear a striking similarity to ajrak.This particular design in the
image has resemblance to the fragments retrieved from Cairo and is known as
'Gurda kaleji 'in local language of ajrakh craftsmen .I recreated an artwork
using this block in my 'Salt March' series
