Cloth, stitch & loom
Bihar, woven and worn.
Silk, cotton, embroidery, appliqué and painted cloth understood through the people and places that make them.
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Traditional techniques and contemporary applications belong together here—but their histories should not be collapsed into one another.
Bhagalpur silk weaving
Silk fabrics, sarees, stoles and dress materials shaped by Bhagalpur’s looms, weaving communities and long relationship with tussar silk.
Khatwa appliqué
Cut and layered cloth assembled through appliqué and stitch into furnishing, clothing and decorative textile surfaces.
Mithila-painted textiles and gamchhas
Mithila painting carried onto gamchhas, stoles, sarees and cloth—an evolving application that should keep the individual artist visible.
Sujani embroidery
Layered cloth and running stitch turned into narrative textiles, domestic memory and contemporary expression.
Bawan Buti weaving
A cotton weaving tradition recognised for repeated extra-weft motifs, associated especially with Baswan Bigha near Bihar Sharif.
Kheta embroidery
Layered and stitched textile work practised by Shershabadi communities, carrying reuse, handwork and local visual language.
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