A sari can either be the most conservative or revealing of garments and the Red Lilies, Water Birds — The Saree in Nine Stories is a revelation on this piece of clothing. Any unstitched length of fabric fits the bill,” says Aayushi Jain, a member of the curatorial team for Red Lilies, Water Birds. “At the same time, they were …
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Red Lilies, Water Birds: The Saree — In Nine Stories has been put together by The Registry of Sarees, a Bengaluru-based research and study centre that enables design, curatorial and publishing projects in the area of handspun and handwoven textiles. And Red Lilies, Water Birds feeds the curatorial path TRS has embarked upon,” said Ahalya Mathan, founder of TRS. The …
The Tungabhadra river flows, not too far from where we stand. Watch | Red Lilies, Water Birds: The Saree — In Nine Stories We wait outside the 14th century Ranganathaswamy temple for writer and independent curator of textiles Mayank Mansingh Kaul, to lead us on a curated walk that is part of the evocatively-named exhibition, Red Lilies, Water Birds: The …
The village of Anegundi near Hampi, Karnataka, has many stories woven around it. A sari on display, from one of the two sections on Varanasi weaves “Handwoven saris and draped garments in the Indian subcontinent, broadly, comprise three main design elements—the border, the end panel and the field. To me, they represent the ‘field’ of the poem.” Exhibition designer Reha …