This weekend, spend some time at a truly unique event — INDIGO SUTRA — which celebrates indigo, the world’s oldest, and most widely used and unique dye {and the only natural blue dye}. It takes its very name from ‘India’.
Exhibits, Films & Talks With Global Experts: Indigo Sutra Is The Event To Be Seen At This Weekend
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What Is It?
Indigo Sutra is a global event that will focus on the production and use of natural indigo, with seminars, exhibitions, demonstrations, workshops, discussion forums, documentary film shows, sale of indigo based textile and other products. There will be optional textile tours as well.
Listen to experts from all over the world speak about indigo. Browse through exhibitions on natural dyes at Nandalal Bose Gallery and Jamini Roy Gallery, at ICCR {on till November 18}.
Watch demonstrations of dyeing and block printing by craftspeople from all over India on November 9 & 10.
Pick up the most gorgeous textile and clothing at The Grand Bazaar {November 9 ,10, and 11}. This is an absolute must-do. People from all over India will be exhibiting their textiles and clothing. You won’t get most of these anywhere else.
There will be a series of workshops at JD Birla Institute {November 11 and 12} where you can pick up skills on different kinds of dyeing {including tie and dye}.
Tell Me More
Indigo, grown and used for millennia in the Subcontinent, was also a major export. It almost died out in the later 19th and early 20th century, due to peasant revolts against forced cultivation and the discovery of synthetic indigo in Germany. One aspect of indigo’s fascinating story is its role in Gandhi’s road to Independence.
There is a widespread upsurge of interest in indigo, both in India and worldwide. The time is ripe to revive its cultivation and manufacture in Northern India and elsewhere. A soil enriching plant, it also has medicinal and insect repellant properties along with a host of other environmental benefits.
The increasing awareness of using organic products in a highly polluted world has led to the current desire to use sustainable indigo for clothing and other textiles. INDIGO SUTRA is a milestone project, using expertise and guidance of top scholars, academics and practitioners of indigo from across the world.
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