luxury – Global InCH- International Journal of Intangible Cultural Heritage

A Lost Inheritance-Jewel Beetle Wing Embroidery

The ‘best dressed woman in the world’ on the occasion of ‘the grandest spectacle in history, ’ bedazzled kings and princes alike in a fabulous gown of gold that in peacock patterning, each feather illuminated with an iridescent emerald-green jewel-beetle wing casing. The occasion – the Delhi Durbar held to commemorate the coronation of King Edward […]

A Designer in Development

The female octopus is born, grows to maturity, gives birth to her clutch of children, and promptly dies. I often think it must be wonderful to have ones role in life, its purpose and parameters, so clearly defined. I, on the other hand, for the last fourteen years in DASTKAR have straddled, often uneasily, the twin […]