Indian Textile Tour
Destination :Bomay-Bhuj-Ann
Mahal Museum-Zainbad -Delhai
Duration
: 19 Days 18 Nights
Day 1: Flight to
Bombay. I will meet you at the airport. Transfer to hotel.
Day 2: Flight
to Bhuj. Check into Hotel Prince. After lunch, visit to Bhujodi
village weavers, who produce blankets and cloth for the local
community. Visit to Rabbari textile collector.
Day 3: Visit
to the restored Anna Mahal museum. After lunch, workshop with Mochi
(fine hookwork) embroiderer.
Day 4: Visit
to Mundra for workshop in wax-resist block printing and felt-making.
Day 5:
Morning workshop with master craftsmen in Bandani (tie-dye). Afternoon
- visit bazaar or continue with workshop. Own dinner.
Day 6-8: A
highlight of this tour is our stay in a village n Kutch. It is a real
privilege to be amongst these people and have a chance to onserve the
pastoral life of these gentle people, as well as having demonstrations
of bellmaking, woodcraving and lacquer work and a full-day workshop in
gold and silver-thread embroidery.
Day 9: Return
to Bhuj. After lunch, workshop with master craftsmen in block
printing.
Day 10/11:
Travel to the wildlife sanctuary of Zainabad. We will see the abundant
birds here and the wild ass (found nowhere else in the world). We can
also view local embroidery.
Day 12:
Travel to Patan to see the weaving of Mushru and of Double Ikat.
Day 13:
Morning visit to the Calico Museum, the finest collection of Indian
textiles in the world. In the afternoon you can make a second visit or
relax in the hotel, which has a pretty garden and a swimming pool. Own
dinner.
Day 14: For
those leaving the tour a day to relax before taking the flight to
Mumbai to connect with international flight. Early start for Udaipur.
We will stay in an attractive lakeside hotel or in the hunting lodge
of the Maharaja. This is an excellent place for overnight tailoring
and dressmaking - bring something to be copied. Optional own cost
dinner in the Lake Palace Hotel.
Day 15: Visit
to the miniature painters - they will show us how they grind pigments
and produce their work. Visit to see (and perhaps buy) Banjara
embroidery from merchant whose extensive stock ranges from inexpensive
trifles to masterpieces of museum quality. Optional (additional cost)
boat trip on lake. Take evening train to Jaipur.
Day 16: Morning
tour of city - Jai Singh Observation (built 1728, City Palace (a
museum with a fabulous collection of textiles, furniture and artifacts
of the court, jewellery etc.), characteristic local architecture.
Afternoon visit to jewellers (a trade for which Jaipur is famous) to
see stones cut and polished and to textile merchants and factory for
hand-woven carpets.
Day 17:
Visits to Sanganer and Bagroo - handmade paper workers, block
printing, indigo dying, and a potter producing the famous blue pottery
of Jaipur. Visit to Anouki Farm design complex. Special dinner at
Palace Hotel.
Day 18: Early
start for Amber Palace - we ride uphill on elephants! After viewing
this magnificent example of Mogul architecture, we continue to Fatipur
Sikri, the ruined sandstone city of Emperor Akbar. Own dinner.
Day 19: Visit
to Taj Mahal. Visit to craftsmen who do the same sort of 'pietra dura'
(inlaid cut-stone) work that decorates the Taj Mahal. Continue to
Delhi.
Day 20: Visit
to Delhi Mela, 'a Fair' to which textile craftsmen from all over India
come to sell their wares. Afternoon visit to Crafts Museum, which has
a formidable collection of historic textiles, statues and other
traditional work.
Day 19: International
flight home.
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