A travelling exhibition highlights the textile art form | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

A travelling exhibition highlights the textile art form | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Pallavi Chattopadhyay |Updated: October 15, 2019 9:08:11 am

A travelling exhibition highlights the textile art form

There are 18 award-winning quilts travelling the country in the exhibition “Threads That Bind".

While Sundararajan notes that India probably has the oldest quilting tradition, these are broadly divided into categories of traditional, modern and art.

Every quilt on display at AIFACS gallery in Delhi hides within its frame heart-rending tales. Lalitha Rajan and Prabha Mathew’s Anamika — We Too, for instance, has a group of rural women with their heads covered, carrying produce from farms and buckets of water. The duo note that the quilt is a tribute to the village women, whose unpaid labour to ensure the smooth running of their household often goes unnoticed.