One thing amongst many others that I love about living in London, especially during a long period of no travelling, is that I get to have little experiences of India and tasters of lots more countries that I haven’t been to. These tasters allow me to reminisce about travels or plan for further exciting travels to new far flung countries. While many good restaurants serve delicious authentic Indian food, particularly good thalis and street food – such as Dishoom in Covent Garden and Govinda’s in Soho, I am talking of course more of the taste for the aesthetic, visual and textural – textiles. And last weekend I received a good…
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Exhibitions and Fairs – Reviews and Roundup
Selvedge Winter Fair I went along to the Selvedge Winter Fair on Saturday. It was the first time I’ve managed to get along to the internationally renowned magazine’s annual fair of beautiful textiles mostly hand-made in the UK, or collected from around the world. When I first arrived about 12 noon, the hall was packed out and at times even became difficult to see any of the textiles on display. I slunk off to the side hall-ways where I chatted to Neha who was representing the non-profit organisation Women Weave in Maheshwar, India. It was founded by Sally Holkar in 2003 following a successful growth of the Rehwa Society formed by…
