A glorious weave
Here is Madhu Jain, in conversation with Kaveree Bamzai on handloom, Nurjehan and weavers' clusters.
It's been a good year for fashion designer Madhu Jain. At 57, she has come into her own, with awards for her work as textile revivalist as well as a show at the Amazon Fashion Week in October of three weaves: the coarse bamboo, subtle silk, and damatic ikat. The self taught queen of ikat learnt on the job, interning with master weavers across India and later in Southeast Asia and Central Asia.Jain has been working with artisansal livelihoods, reviving and reinventing traditional weaves. One of her primary examples is the bamboo textile, which embodies her sustainability ideal, given that India is the second
