Month: October 2024
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A Study of Draping
The history of the draped garment dates back to 3500 BCE. Across the land, visual arts of ancient sculptures, terracottas, cave paintings, and wood carvings depict men and women in unstitched cloth with various draping styles. A notable draped garment in the East is that of the Buddha, called the kāṣāya, named after ochre, an…
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The Fall
“Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?”Genesis 3:1 In the middle of Eden was the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, but…
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The Kantha Gown
Kantha is more than one thousand years old, dating back to the pre-Vedic era in ancient India. Traditionally a utilitarian, functional craft, kantha has evolved into a unique way of portraying and celebrating life events. Today, the word kantha has come to describe the stitching style rather than the object itself. Beyond simple running stitches…
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The Peacock
The world’s most spectacular border ceremony takes place daily before dusk at Wagah, roughly halfway between Lahore in Pakistan and Amritsar in India. Large crowd gathers between the Indian Border Security Forces and the Pakistan Rangers to witness a spectacle of what could be appropriately coined “Peacocks at Sunset.” Using their body instead of weapon,…
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