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National Meet : Building tomorrow’s markets today: Meeting the challenges of craft innovation, quality, technology and sustainability   The future of crafts is already here with us today. It has come with the demand for innovation and creativity in markets that are constantly shifting to match changing lifestyles and demography – most particularly the exploding demography of GenNext. As the craft scenario evolves, one […]

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About the Show: The 34th Edition of ‘Textiles & Accessories’ Show presented by The Crafts Council of India tells the unfolding story or countless number of stories of India’s saris and textiles today. It is a mesmerising story rooted in timeless weaves, techniques and traditions and rich in history, yet eclectic and evolving through centuries […]

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  About the Show: In the midst of a scorching Chennai summer, it is raining blouses at the ‘Blouse Mela’ at the ‘Kamala’ Crafts shop! And how!! The Mela showcases a dazzle of ‘art and style’ unstitched blouses, each a wonderful symphony crafted by the artisanal hands of India. The matchless craftsmanship and intuitive design […]

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    CCI participated (part of UNESCO/ WCCAPR) at the International Folk Art Market held at Santa Fe this 12, 13, 14 July 2019. Many Indian crafts such as Papier mache, Bagru print, Block prints, miniature paintings, sanjhi paper cutwork, madhubani paintings, bead work, Kutch embroideries, kantha embroidery, machilipatnam prints, patachitra and textiles such as Kalamkari, Block […]

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    “Celebrating Handlooms” Everyday has been “handloom day” through the many millennia of India’s history, from mohenjodaro’s 5,000 year old scrap of madder cloth wrapped around a silver spindle, through ancient and medieval trade routes, to the country’s positioning today as the biggest handloom producer in the world. This celebration in continuum of handlooms is the […]

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    The Crafts Council of India’s Craft Shop ‘Kamala’ presents “Pathram” (3rd edition), a ‘collection’ of crafts from ‘kitchen to tableware’… celebrating the quintessential Indian pathram in all its evocative shapes, forms and colour, and it’s mystique of churning out the cornucopia of Indian dishes…as well as its evolution as part contemporary kitchen and table settings. […]

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    Chendamangalam Handloom A new collection of Kerala Saris will be available for Onam at Kamala Chennai. (starting 3rd September 2019 until stock lasts.) The saris have been made at Chendamangalam with the help of ‘Care for Chendamangalam’ (C4C) team. Background: In August 2018, the floods of Kerala ravaged the lives of Keralites in more ways […]