Hanaphabi and Saidambi Naik, two middle-aged women from the Kalaghatgi taluk in Karnataka’s Dharwad district, were restless at first to speak in front of a camera. A few whisper-filled moments later, ...

BENGALURU: Nearly a decade ago, city-based art historian Anita N was visiting her friend Girija, a Siddi woman, at the latter’s family home in rural North Karnataka where she was given a quilt woven ...

For Anitha N Reddy, a decade of engaging with the Siddi community — a people of African descent who settled in Karnataka, Gujarat and Maharashtra — began with a classmate’s marriage into the community ...

Chennai: The Varija Art Gallery at DakshinaChitra Museum, Muttukadu, is hosting an exhibition of quilts handcrafted by Siddi women from Karnataka. The Chennai connect is that these quilts were made ...

Kenyans know a lot about knitting, stitching and even crocheting. But they don’t know much about quilting as a craft. The quickest way to learn about quilts and their beauty is to head to Nairobi ...

Drive down Mumbai’s thoroughfares, the ones hemmed in by tin shanties and makeshift homes and chances are you’ll spot an intricately hand stitched quilt hung out to air on a rickety balcony or a road ...

There would hardly be anyone whose childhood was devoid of presence of quilts. Why childhood, quilts figure at every stage of life in Indian scheme of things. Despite their ubiquitous presence in our ...