Rilli is among the ancient traditions of handicrafts in Sindh, the quilt made with colorful cloth pieces is used for bedding.

We just thought it was interesting for  any of our viewers in to home quilting, soft furnings for ideas and to inspire you. Some great patterns.

An amateur video of a Singhalese Lady from Sri Lanka who is producing her own colorful fabrics to later on make shirts and sarongs sold mainly to foreign visitors looking for a handmade and more personal gift to carry home. Shirts are custom made for each client if requested with designs unique to the clients orders.
Batik: Melted wax is applied to cloth before being dipped in dye. It is common for people to use a mixture of beeswax and paraffin wax. The beeswax will hold to the fabric and the paraffin wax will allow cracking, which is a characteristic of batik. Wherever the wax has seeped through the fabric, the dye will not penetrate. Sometimes several colours are used, with a series of dyeing, drying and waxing steps.

Thin wax lines are made with a canting, a wooden handled tool with a tiny metal cup with a tiny spout, out of which the wax seeps. After the last dyeing, the fabric is hung up to dry. Then it is dipped in a solvent to dissolve the wax, or ironed between paper towels or newspapers to absorb the wax and reveal the deep rich colors and the fine crinkle lines that give batik its character.Maintaining batik
For all BATIK Textiles the following rules apply:

Hand wash, or best just soak the cloth
Use very little detergent, best to use lerak
Hang the batik directly, do not squeeze the cloth
Do not hang in direct sunlight
The iron should not directly touch the cloth, best to use a steam iron
Silk batik is best dry-cleaned
Do not spray perfume onto the cloth directly (Wikipedia)

This video shows the entire process of vegetable dye textile production at the Adivasi Veg. dye production house in Rajasthan. Vegetable Dye textiles are an extremely labor intensive process and the knowledge of the traditional skills of creating these textiles remains with a handful of artisans in India today. So great to learn and see the traditional techniques of all the different products we take for granted in the West.

An insight into what we do at Publisher Textiles. This video gives you an understanding of how timely the process of hand screen printing is. This particular design Botanica was done by Mark Cawood; it is a four colour print based on a poinsettia plant. This fabric is printed in-house in our Factory in Leichhardt, Sydney..Enjoy! www.publishertextiles.com.au

A great amateur video taken by a guest in India which really captures life there.Here he took a tour of a fabric block-printing center and learned a lot about the textiles representative of Jaipur and the surrounding area of Rajisthan State, India
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Meet Emma Mawston, our Head Designer at Liberty Art Fabrics as she talks us through each design group in the new SS12 collection. Find out the inspiration behind each one, plus meet the Liberty Design Team as they share their favourite print from the collection with us.

The Spring Summer 2012 Liberty Art Fabrics collection was inspired by archives, antiques and costume. Colour palettes were based around mood boards created by eminent contributors to fashion, art and antiques, with prints giving a nod to the beautiful Glencot House in Somerset as well as Olympic motifs.

More on Liberty London HERE

Their Liberty of London AW12 fabric collection is now in store, each print telling a different story.

This season the collection celebrates the innovation of the textile process through an exploration of the broad spectrum of textile techniques. The prints are inspired by historical and current textile design including block printing, weave, embroidery and needlepoint, as well as the latest digital printing techniques.

Go behind the scenes and meet the designers who created the prints in our in house studio – you’ll discover the secrets of what inspired their favourite print and how their original art work has transformed into designs now available to buy in store.

Artisans in Rajasthan India create textiles using the ancient art of hand-blocking. So great to see the whole process from start to finish, they work so quickly but always accurate.

The Culture and Context of Goan Quilts. Interesting slides on quilts from the Goa region of India, and of interest for any quilt enthusiasts or viewers looking for inspiration using a wide range of colours

This short video made by Patrick Finn is an architectural story of India about  where water meets stone to create a bridge for the senses visually and in sound. Patrick is very good at catching the moment as though on is ther ein person. We really enjoy his work and he certainly has the eye for detail and culture, and always chooses great music to make it even more of a pleasure.