A type of mukaish embroidery in which short lengths of metallic wire are passed through fabric with the help of a needle and twisted to form patterns comprising dots of varying sizes. Popular in Lucknow since the Mughal era, it is used to embellish textiles.
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Textiles with embroidered inscriptions produced in Iran during the early Islamic period, until the fourteenth century CE. Robes made of…
A painting technique in which paint is thickly applied to the canvas, creating a surface texture. This can aid in…
A motif with a raised surface, it is often found in textiles. Cables are created by knitting out of order,…
A technique of resist-dyeing in which molten wax is applied to portions of a textile, using blocks or a pen-like…
A photograph made by creating a positive directly on a thin sheet of black-enamelled metal coated with collodion. They were…
Discontinuous patterning techniques in Bhutanese weaving, using supplementary weft to create single-faced motifs and patterns (invisible on the reverse of…
A process of producing multicoloured prints using the offset technique. The inked image is printed on a rubber cylinder, then…
A Persian handwoven woollen cloth produced primarily in Isfahan, Iran, and characterised by a jujube red, green or black ground.…