KARACHI: It was a slow day at work for Amjad Ahmed. But then, almost every day had been so for the past few years. Ahmed, who runs a block printing shop in North Karachi, has been working since the ...

Textile artist Maham Irfan conducted an interactive block printing workshop at the National Art Gallery on Wednesday, with participants getting hands-on experience in the art of block printing. The ...

“Block Printing! The very name sounds intriguing! Out of the East it came centuries ago! Temple bells of the Orient, sunlight of Italy, snow-crowned mountains of the North, and blue skies of Zeeland ...

Archana Tiwari, a research scholar from the National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), Mumbai, has completed her research on ‘Traditional block needs contemporary fabrics.’ She had explored many ...

he Kolkata-based singer is supporting hand block printing artisans in her own small way. She talks to Femina about the challenges the art form is facing. The coronavirus crisis is expected to ...