Journal

As you wander through the pages of my website, you may see references to a technique or a natural dye and a link to read more.  I have gathered the...

Dabu printing Dabu printing is an ancient hand block printing technique from Rajasthan, India. It is a labor intensive printing process and invo...

The indigo dyed fabrics in the Kasu collection are coloured using an ancient technique. First, the dye has to be extracted from the plant, and then...

Traffic is different on the roads we travel – you might have to share the road with a nomad moving house with all her possessions atop a camel, an elephant being led somewhere, or a herder with his cattle or goats.

This unassuming address at the end of dusty lanes through scrubby bushland produces amazingly beautiful textiles. We were shown some family archival pieces as well as some recent products, one piled on top of the other in a dizzying display as we tried to decide which ones we could not live without. 

Getting to Bagru village was a bit of a drama...

Waking up in the morning after a great night’s sleep in my luxurious palace bedroom in with beds so high, a footstool is provided, and a bathroom as big as my living room, I was ready to face a day of research in the Shekhawati area of northern Rajasthan.

Our base in Bhuj was the wonderful Bhuj House, a traditional Parsi courtyard house. Built in the late 1800’s, it has stayed in the family through...