The Mela: Craft’s Distribution Model
By Border&Fall
As steady and robust centres for the sale of Indian artisanal crafts, melas (market fairs) have been held across India for over 1300 years. They are a part of many consumers’ landscape of nostalgia, almost everyone brought up in India can attest to attending at least one.

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Progressive Weaving Facilities – Part II
By Border&Fall
This is the second in a three-part series looking at path-breaking weaving facilities in different stages of development across the country. Part II looks at The Varanasi Silk Weaving Atelier.
Portrait Of An Artist: Khalid Amin Khatri
By Border&Fall
Khalid Amin Khatri resides in the village of Ajrakhpur, about 15 km from Bhuj in Gujarat. At 23, he is a recognised talent and nonconformist in his respected block printing community, infusing asymmetry into an art form that is traditionally and fundamentally symmetri…
WhatsApp: Craft’s Quiet Facilitator
By Border&Fall
With 220 million smartphone users, India is the world's second largest smartphone market after the US. Given our population there is room for growth; however the shift from former means of communication to WhatsApp in the craft industry has already taken place.
Cafe Lota
By Suniti Ila Rao
Architect Charles Correa designed Delhi’s Crafts Museum describing it as "architecture not as an object one looks at, but as an energy field one moves through." It remained a vacant, dreary institution for decades – until Cafe Lota appeared on the scene a few years …
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Reflections
By Border&Fall
Kolkata-based fashion designer, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, discusses the power of cultivating a collective national identity and why he believes the onus of modernizing craft should only be on those who understand it.
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Craft Meets 3D
By Becca Rosen
Technology and craft meet with implications to consider, both potentially positive and negative. Becca Rosen, a New York based designer and textile developer, captures her experiments with traditional block printing and 3D printing in this thought provoking exploration.
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