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Toe River Arts announces the opening of two printmaking exhibitions - Pressing Forward and What a Relief! at the galleries at its Spruce Pine location, on display May 8 to June 5, 2021. What a Relief! a collection of relief woodblock prints by local artists, is an exhibition of large-scale woodblock prints made by 18 artists and students from Mitchell and Yancey counties who during the Big Ink workshop in October 2020. After countless hours of carving, participants printed their blocks on the Big Ink traveling press. The smallest of the large-scale prints is 2’ x 3’, with the largest being 4’ x 8’. Learn more about BIG INK at a
Entrepreneurship Summit 2021 - “Sustain to Attain” organised by Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Madras
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Updated: Saturday, March 13, 2021, 8:07 [IST]
Presented by Westbridge Capital, co-sponsored by StartupTN and powered by the IIT Madras Alumni Batch of 1990, E-Summit 21 marked the beginning of the next phase in a series of ISO 9001:2015 certified entrepreneurial fests, one of a kind in India.
Every year, the theme of the fest is chosen to reflect the spirit of an important point in a startup s lifetime. This year s theme is Sustain to Attain , stressing the necessity of resilience, preparation and calculated decision-making in order to sustain through the do-or-die pivoting moments in a startup s journey, and overcome them.
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Traditional block printing on fabric in Jaipur, India.
India arrives at my home in Los Angeles regularly, in the form of block-printed tablecloths, quilts, and fabrics by the yard. Christine Lennon – March 5, 2021 | Updated March 26, 2021
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I have a textile habit, largely enabled by Etsy, which involves battered packages arriving on my doorstep after lengthy journeys across the globe from Bagru or Jaipur. Iâve never been to India (Itâs at the top of my bucket list) but India arrives at my home in Los Angeles regularly, in the form of block-printed tablecloths, quilts, and fabrics by the yard that I have sewn into pillow covers or curtains. I have been known to keep a stack of yardage folded neatly in a closet in case of some unidentified textile emergency.Â
How COVID-19-induced lockdown has pushed Rajasthan’s traditional block printing community to the brink
For the crafts-dependent community in Bagru, practically overnight, the entire cycle of demand and supply came to a standstill, with revenues registering a ‘zero’. Going forward, the only hope for the people of Bagru is incentivised and increased demand.
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Everyone has worn kurtas, dupattas or sarees with the iconic floral or geometric hand-prints from Rajasthan. But given the tough times that the crafts community of block printers is facing in the wake of the COVID pandemic; these could soon become a thing of the past. The mood is sombre in the small town of Bagru, 32 km from Jaipur, known for the handicraft of block printing on textiles. Even though the thousands of metres of fabric printed by the families through the traditional Dabu hand printing method are famous not just in India but across the world; the last year has been bleak for the communit