Creative projects rooted in Indian craft, for beginners and for people who want to slow down. Learn Madhubani painting, Warli art with its techniques, tools and first projects, and block printing at home with Indian stamps. We also look at keeping a handmade journal and at simple ways to prepare your home for the monsoon. Each guide lists what you need and how to start without special equipment.
Block printing at home is one of the most direct ways a person from outside India can put their hands on a tradition that stretches back more than a thousand years, and the tools are simpler than you might expect. What block printing actually is Block printing is an ancient technique used to print designs … Read more
Handmade journal making pulled me into a street in Sanganer, Rajasthan, where a papermaker spread wet cotton pulp across a wooden frame and changed the way I thought about creativity forever. What makes Indian paper so special India has one of the oldest handmade paper traditions in the world. The craft of papermaking was brought … Read more
Warli art stops most visitors the first time they see it: white stick figures dancing in circles on a red-brown wall, somewhere between a cave painting and a story that never ends. The Warli community has left a captivating legacy across Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu. For … Read more
Monsoon proof your home now, before the first cloud breaks, and protect the space where your family gathers, cooks, celebrates, and rests through every season India brings. Start with the roof and outer walls The roof is the first place rain attacks. Your roof is your home’s first line of defence against the rain, and … Read more
Madhubani painting pulls you in the moment you see it: bold black outlines, every gap filled with color, fish and peacocks and lotus flowers pressing against the edges of the frame. Most visitors to Bihar walk past it on a train platform or a government wall and think: I could never do that. They are … Read more
