Rajasthan · 13 days
The textile trail of the Rajputs
Thirteen days of block prints, tie-dye and pearl embroidery.
The journey
Rajasthan taken through its cloth: the mud-print village at Akola, bandhani and lehariya tie-dye in Udaipur, Moti Bharat pearl embroidery at Jalore, durrie weaving at Salawas, and the block-printing towns of Bagru and Sanganer. Workshops throughout, with the people who do it.
Route
- Udaipur
- Akola
- Jalore
- Salawas
- Jodhpur
- Pushkar
- Bagru
- Sanganer
- Jaipur
- Abhaneri
- Agra
- Delhi
What stays with you
- 01Mud-resist printing at Akola, which is done in one village and nowhere else
- 02Bandhani and lehariya tie-dye, and trying both
- 03Moti Bharat pearl embroidery at Jalore
- 04Durrie weaving at Salawas
- 05Wooden block printing at Pushkar, Bagru and Sanganer
- 06The stepwell at Abhaneri, and the Taj Mahal at sunset
Day by day
A shape rather than a timetable. Days move, and most people move one or two of them.
1 – 2
Delhi, then the internal flight to Udaipur. The mud-print village at Akola.
3
The palace, and the bandhani and lehariya workshops.
4
On to Jalore, and the Moti Bharat pearl embroiderers.
5 – 6
Jodhpur by way of the durrie weavers at Salawas. Mehrangarh, and a day of bandhej.
7
Pushkar, and wooden block printing.
8 – 9
Jaipur through Bagru and Sanganer. The textile museums and the shops.
10 – 11
Agra by way of the Abhaneri stepwell. The Taj at sunset, the fort next morning.
12 – 13
Old Delhi and Dilli Haat, then home.
Shall we plan it?
Tell us roughly when, and how many of you, and we will come back with dates, a price and anything we would change about the route.
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