Love Affair with Textiles

  Today, lets talk about my love for brocades, its origins, some techniques without using much technical jargon. These are very rich, royal and intricate fabrics that I must discuss and highlight some of their characterictics. I have designed Lengha's, Anarkali's, Choli's, Kurta/Pants combo suits with a Jackets in these fabulous rich colorful gorgeous fabrics for many clients. I will share some pics as references so you can visualize these fabrics on a person and share my enthusiasm for these beautiful fabrics. The  Brocade  is a heavy fabric interwoven  with a  richly,  decorative  raised design,  often made in coloured silks and with or without gold and silver threads.   These fabrics are mostly used for making expensive garments and sarees. Very often the satin ground weave is particularly used for garments fabrics. These fabrics are characterized by their jals which are normally made out of silk and tilla.  In the 16th to the early 1...

  As long as I can remember I have always loved the world of fabrics, clothing, design, color and textures since I was a young girl. So I decided to pursue my passion by going into Textile Designing in College in India and learnt the nuts and bolts of textiles, the types, its processes, the intricate weaving patterns and skillful printing techniques. It was a huge world and I couldnt learn all of the techniques, the hundreds of fabrics, textures from machine made to handmade textiles in one lifetime. But I decided to make this my career and learn all I could about this magical world of color,texture,weaving,printing, yarns,techniques, dyeing, all made with their own unique trademark skills.  I was very lucky to have visited hundreds of textiles mills in South India, watching how they employed various looms, yarns to weave into a unique pattern. It was a fascinating world,one that was handed down from one generation to the next with an inherent knowledge on how to cre...