Sisters Hopie and Lily Stockman created Block Shop Textiles, which sells everything from scarves and robes to rugs and homewares, to bring the printing techniques they have admired throughout their ...

If there was ever a model of a small-scale family business that embraces creative and strategic thinking in near equal measure while making beautiful, soulful goods, Block Shop is it. Sisters Hopie ...

Once textile designer John Robshaw discovered block printing in Asia, his life and career set off on a whole new path. Robshaw’s fascination with this centuries-old artisanal method of hand printing ...

The rich collection of India's cultural heritage relating to textile blocks should be preserved, documented and made available to students of fine arts, fashion designers and research scholars for ...

Painter Kelly Witmer’s work often depicts geometric pattern on repeat, similar to the final product of a block-printed textile or canvas. This made-to-order piece features a soothing sky-blue palette ...

In the museum's textile collection are over 400 of these curious blocks. What were they used for and when did they come to us? During the late 1850s and 1860s these blocks were used to stamp ...

(MENAFN- KNN India) Gandhinagar, Apr 30 (KNN) In a significant milestone for India's vibrant textile heritage, the traditional Ajrakh textile artisans of Kutch, Gujarat have been granted the ...