National Museum inaugurates an exhibition of ancient Indian textiles
12 Nov '05
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National Museum has set up an exhibition commemorating 600 years of Indian textiles held in New Delhi.
A range of clothes exported from the country as early as the 14th century from "Textiles and Art of the People of India (TAPI)" was on the display. TAPI is a collection of Mumbai-based Praful and Shilpa Shah.
The exhibition was followed by a book launch on the same topic at Netherlands Embassy. Shah said that the exhibition would definitely attract students of history, textile arts, commerce, economics, and cultural and social diffusion.
On the event, Mr Shah also awarded Vinayak Salvi, Bharat Salvi and Rohit Salvi with the Master of Cloth Award 2005. The Patan-based Salvi family has been breathing new life into a rare Patola pattern lost in the labyrinths of history for the past 150 years.
The award extols the remarkable and extraordinary contribution of Salvis to preserve and propagate the traditional Indian textile art.
Salvis took the artistic challenge that has little commercial bent, to revive Silk Patola, a traditional design that has captured attention of many countries, said Kapila Vatsyayan.
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