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Bagru: A Living Tradition of Colour, Cloth and Community

Parvai’s continuing pursuit of traditional block printing, natural dyes, inherited design languages and the people who keep an extraordinary textile tradition alive. A town that has held on to its ...

Parvai | Independent Works

An exploration of knowledge, people, design and the possibilities of making. Independent Works is Parvai's dedicated practice in textile research, design development and experimental production. Co...

Kancheepuram: The Rock on Which Parvai Was Built

We Began With One Loom Parvai's journey in Kancheepuram began in 2018 with one loom. We entered the town with enormous excitement, curiosity and, in retrospect, a useful amount of ignorance. We kne...

Zari, Textiles and the Changing Meaning of Value

Zari has long carried meanings of wealth, status, ritual and inheritance, but its role has changed dramatically with shifts in production, regulation, precious-metal prices and consumer culture. Th...

The First Drape Belongs to You

Why We Photograph Our Saris the Way We Do A Question of Trust At Parvai, we have always believed that the relationship between a patron and a handcrafted textile begins long before the sari is actu...

Patron Care, Accountability, and Parvai's Final Position

Just as deeply as we value our patrons, we also value ourselves, our work, our artisans, and the integrity with which Parvai has been built over the years. Patronage, to us, has never meant unquest...

Sidra: Our starlit sky

A Parvai Perspective Chanderi occupies a distinctive position within the textile history of the Indian subcontinent. Celebrated for the remarkable lightness, translucency and luminosity of its clot...

The Vineyard of Prosperity

Reimagining an Ancient Ornamental Tradition through the Weaving Heritage of Molakalmuru An Ornament That Travelled Across Civilisations Among the many ornamental vocabularies that have flourished ...

Rajeshwari

Chapter I The Philosophy Behind Rajeshwari Every Meaningful Textile Begins with a Question Some questions seek to preserve traditions that have endured across generations. Others ask how inherited...

Rainbow Mountain

A Tribute to Vidhya, the Spirit of Exploration, and the Philosophy of Inspired Living The Mountains That Reveal Themselves Slowly There are places in the world that remind us how small we are, and ...