Overflowing with colours, textures and designs, India's textile heritage makes for a fascinating travel experience. Such is the diversity - the splendid silks of North and South India, the colourful mirror work, block printing and tie-and-dye work of Rajasthan and Gujarat, the magnificent embroidery chikankari of Lucknow, to name a few - that you can spend months just exploring India’s textile heritage.
The Indian handicrafts range from wooden artefacts, clay pots, terracotta products, metallic ornaments, pottery, sculptures to glass pieces. These arts and crafts are specimens of the cultural diversity and rich artistic tradition of the country.
We promise to take you beyond the guidebooks into the traditional textile centres for authentic, unique and interactive experiences with local artisans who carry on indigenous arts that are thousands of years old. Indeed, if you do not want to travel full two-three weeks doing a 'textile tour' we can seemlessly insert few day of interaction with textile artisans during a more 'regular' tour of yours - afterall, where ever you might be in India, you are never far from an amazing textile tradition.
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Given below are a few sample itineraries for textile and handicrafts tours of India, focusing on major art traditions of North India.
If you don't find what you are looking for, tell us where your interest lies and how many days you have; although no duration of time is enough in India, we will design a tour for you meticulously selecting sites and locations that best suit you.
Write in to us at contact@storyofindia.com and we would be happy to design an itinerary just for you.
Woven Threads - The Textile Traditions of North India
Explore the bustling lanes of Delhi with its wedding street, jewellers’ lane and colorful sari bazaar. Take a train to Lucknow known for its exquisite shadow-work embroidery, Chikankari. Drive to Varanasi and visit a silk weaving centre churning out sophisticated saris. Fly to Jaipur and immerse yourself in a block-printing workshop. Drive to Udaipur and explore its colourful markets exhibiting batik prints. Continue to the state of Gujarat synonymous with colourful textiles and embroideries and spend a few days in the fascinating tribal region of Kutch.
ROUTING: DELHI - LUCKNOW - VARANASI - JAIPUR - UDAIPUR - AHMEDABAD - KUTCH
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Traditional Indian Crafts Tour
Explore Delhi’s art galleries and craft bazaars, Agra’s magnificent marble art, Jaipur’s block-print textiles and potteries, and Udaipur’s museums and miniature paintings. Udaipur is the venue of an yearly (December) Shilpgram Fair which is a living ethnographic museum depicting the enormous diversities in craft, art and culture of India
ROUTING: DELHI - AGRA - JAIPUR - UDAIPUR
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