The first room on the ground floor is a display of finished and unfinished paintings. In this room, Karuppur Kalamkari paintings on cotton fabric are piled up against the wall, like a stack of ...

Buying a handloom textile that uses a 3,000-year-old craft is akin to acquiring a work of art. Much like a painting or ...

The Government Museum has on display a Kalamkari painting that depicts ‘Paramapadham’ (dice game) in an exhibition that is on till September 22. The exhibition aims to impart knowledge about ...

Kalamkari is one of India’s oldest and most treasured forms of hand-painted and block-printed textile art, dating back over 3,000 years. The term ‘Kalamkari’ is derived from the Persian ...

Vidya Balan wears a Kalamkari saree from Gaurang Shah's Chitravali Collection Paintings in fashion, is art in motion. The fall of a perfectly draped saree with stories wrapped around it is just ...

TIRUPATI: Two-and-a-half decades on, Mamatha Reddy continues to carry forward the legacy of renowned Kalamkari paintings and artworks using natural dyes. Mamatha Reddy, 56, has built a reputation ...

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are known for Kalamkari art, which translates to "pen work." Kalamkari includes both hand-painted and block-printed textiles and scrolls that narrate mythological ...

Kalamkari art, the famous hand painted or block printed cotton textile, which is on the verge of extinction, is all set to get a revival boost, with Co-optex's announcement that they plan to ...

P Veera Subbaiah, Srinivas’ father was the first to introduce the art of kalamkari to Pedana. “In one day, my workers are paid ₹300 and can produce only two pieces - no matter how hard they ...

DWARAKA (Development of Weavers and Rural Artisans in Kalamkari Art) is now a success story and its members recall its beginnings under a tree, with 20 people, in June 1998. “My father and I ...

Bhopal: A traditional painting workshop on "Traditional Kalamkari of Andhra Pradesh" was inaugurated on 28 May 2025 at the ...