Banarasi silk has always ruled the trousseau of an Indian bride since decades. The varied patterns, buttis, have intrigued and lured Indian women at large, not just the brides. Sarees, dupattas, ...
Rebuilt fast with endless straight lines, flats and big squares, the grid-pattern greyness evokes Stalinism – but ... They’ve been farmers, workers in dyeing, silk and much else besides, trailblazers ...
The Silk Road, like the Milky Way, is not, alas, an entirely literal entity. It’s a branding exercise, a way of making coherent a whole network of ancient trade routes that stretched east and west, ...