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SUN, FIRE, RIVER, ARJAK - CLOTH FROM THE SOIL OF SINDH (1998)

This fascinating documentary video was produced after years of research into traditional ajrak cloth making in Sindh. It attempts to express the unbreakable bond between the elements used in the production of ajrak cloth and their importance to regional life. Following the elaborate, multi-staged process of ajrak production, the film takes us through the artisan’s “dance” with the cloth in a profession marked by precision, dedication and pride. The results are sumptuous, vivid shawls that extend the motifs of balance and rhythm seen in Sufi temples.

Clips

100 Years of Beauty | India

The Cut (2015)

500 Years of Indian Fashion

Maayankraj Singh (2022)

Baiga Women and Body Decorations: Ornaments and Tattoo Culture

Sahapedia (2020)

Bibhu Mohapatra on Indian Family Values

Zardozi Magazine (2020)

Chintz Today: Breathing New Life into Traditional Textile Design

Royal Ontario Museum (2021)

Cloth that Changed the World

Royal Ontario Museum (2020)

Costs of Desire: Ethics of Production in Historic Chintz

Royal Ontario Museum (2021)

Draping a Traditional Maharashtrian Sari

Asian Art Museum (2011)

Exploring South Asian Beauty Standards | Beauty Culture

QOVES Studio (2020)

Handmade in South Asia: Textile Economies in Pakistan

GW Museum and Textile Museum

Her Dreams are Bigger

Osman Yousefzada

How Was It Made? Ari Embroidery

Victoria & Albert Museum  (2015)

How Was It Made? Traditional Indian Weaving

Victoria & Albert Museum, (2015)

Improving the Life of Bangladeshi Garment Workers | Kalpona Akter

Business of Fashion (2018)

Inside the Indian Textile Industry with Sadhguru

The Business of Fashion (2019)

Inside the $50B World of Indian Weddings with Deepika Padukone and Sabyasachi Mukherjee

Business of Fashion, 2019

Inside Manish Arora’s Studio

Victoria & Albert Museum, 2015

Kallol Datta | Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics

Victoria & Albert Museum (2021)

Ladakhi Dress and Costume

Sahapedia (2021)

Made in Bangladesh

CBC (2014)

New Lives of Indian Chintz

Royal Ontario Museum (2021)

Prabal Gurung in Conversation with Dr. Valerie Steele

The Museum at FIT (2020)

Re-invented: Contemporary Fashion, Historic Design

Royal Ontario Museum (2020)

The Road to Independence

Victoria & Albert Museum (2015)

The Sari Series: An Anthology of Drape

Malika Verma Kashyap and Sanjay Garg, The Museum at FIT (2018)

The Sari Series: How to Drape

What Fashion Can Learn from Mahatma Gandhi

The Business of Fashion (2020)

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Header image: Ram Gopal and his Indian Dancers and Musicians, 1947Photographer: Roger Wood
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