Crafts
"Rasa": The Allure of India's Crafts
This Diwali, read a carefully constructed essay on why I so value India's crafts, what they have meant in the development of an Indian Identity and...
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Ethic-ettes
The Business/Environment
How are we integrating sustainability into our business practice? Is what we're doing enough and what more must we do? Must we do anything at all? ...
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The True Cost of Crafts
In this post, I ask a question I've never asked before: when we give platforms to artisans, exactly which traditions are we exemplifying? Which on...
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The Micro Dilemma
Should we use a polyester lining when customers request it? And how much better are our alternatives and which should YOU buy? Ethic-ettes is a ser...
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Challenges
To COD or Not to COD: Delivery Options and Womanhood
How do we approach the challenges of COD? How could you help small businesses in times of uncertainty? And how does all of this result in addressin...
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On Bagru
Patterns of Bagru
Read Below for an excerpt from a Scholarly essay written by Kushagr Most craft forms in India focus on stories- whether they are local/ tribal t...
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An Introduction to Bagru
Read Below for an excerpt from a Scholarly essay written by Kushagr India, as a culture, is ancient, its history spanning millennia, its stories...
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Blocks and Dyes of Bagru
The Dyes Within Block printing in India, exist 2 types of dyes- the chemical and the natural. And it would seem plain to me which one is to be pre...
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A History of Blockprinting in India
The history of India's domicile crafts oft has gone undocumented. The great annals of our past list only in passing the emergence and maintenance o...
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