Category Archives: artist

Craftworm

make it or break it

06/10/2007 DesignFlute 4 Comments

And somewhere there are engineers

Helping others fly faster than sound.

But, where are the engineers

Helping those who must live on the ground?”

–Young Oxfam Poster on this site.

spindle

He has an engineering degree from best institution in India and still we can say he is a teacher. He is a toy teacher who teaches children how to make simple toys from inexpensive materials which hold a little science secret. Children are not bothered with any heavy explanation, they just have fun! He says learning by experience sticks in the memory.

Arvind Gupta has conducted workshops for children in more than 1,500 schools across India. He has taken his toy-tours to quite a few countries.

He has written several books on science for children and translated several more. At present he has been working at the Children’s Science Centre, Pune.

mgaical pencil holder

dancer can aeroplane

ball in the air balloon pump

His site is a treasure house of toys-DIY (+200) , digitized books and few films.

Do not miss this site –:all of you who have school-going young children!

indian designers, stuff made of folklore

weft, warp, clutch

01/10/2007 DesignFlute 3 Comments

This bag bibi has captured Indian grandeur and royalty onto bags. A riot of Indian colours and sensibilities are portrayed with the use of mediums like wood carving, marble inlay, brass, copper and silver engravings, the use of ‘kinkhabs’, ‘jadau’, ‘kundan’, semi-precious stones with extremely rich embroidery.

Meera Mahadevia is a Mumbai based accessory designer. Qualified as textile designer, Meera in her handcrafted bags uses exquisite texture like silk, jamewar, zari borders, organza, velvet inter woven with multiple layers. Her accessory line also makes shoes and belts and more recently sarees.

Her ornate bags have come to be considered as heirloom pieces and were displayed at Asian Civilization Museum Gallery, Singapore and at the Newark Museum Gallery , USA as pieces of creative art.

On October 3, as a part of The India Celebration Week (incredible India @60), a preview of Meera’s accessories and garments will be hosted by the Newark museum and displayed in the Museum Rotunda and the Education Shop in New York for exclusive shopping. She will be felicitated by the Newark Museum in New York for her 21 years of hard work and creativity.

Craftworm, Events

craftworm

25/09/2007 DesignFlute 2 Comments

I love doing a lot of crafts. I call myself a simple craftisan. So there is going to be a regular column-post in my sidebar

CraftWorm

strating from today. I will be featuring near & crafty ones, my own DIY and crafts and other simple DIY.

Today is a simple tie & dye DIY project.

Click on the image to go to the site.

barren walls, Craftworm, DIY

design-ancient scripts

24/09/2007 DesignFlute 8 Comments

(In Brahmi script I have tried to write read me)

read me ?

Harappan script (ca. 2600-1900 BC)

Magical Stela, 360-343 B.C.E, Egypt

I can’t read these!

Can you?

But I think I read these scripts.

I read: —

That our ancestors wrote too beautifully! Do you agree?

That curious caterpillar in me gets so aroused I go green.

(Please donot correct my words I want to describe this way only.)

That mystery of not knowing what is written arouses what I call lovely fear in me.

That my fascination drives me to use these scripts/images in various DIY ways:–

? All the time I use these kinds of images as my desktop background.

my desktop

?Years ago I had copied these scripts in clay and put on wall as a decor piece.

in this shape now

?I want to do walls of narrow passageway in my new home with these scripts translated in clay including the lippankam method of Kutch, Gujarat.

(Lippankam is a dying art & craft I just love so much. Simple motifs are made with clay and small mirrors on the walls. Will do a post on lippankam later though I am terribly short of images.)

Stela, Egypt

Indus script (ca. 3000-1200 BC)

Brahmi script- ca. 3rd century BC

(click to enlarge)

Craftworm, cycle back, DIY, green roots

design is infectious!

19/09/2007 DesignFlute 5 Comments

Guess which flower this is?

Continue reading design is infectious! →

artist, green roots

light mark on paper

16/09/2007 DesignFlute 7 Comments

Tell me what is so earthy about handmade paper! May be I am only person in the world who has covered few old books in handmade paper! My fascination with handmade paper has taken me to Finland’s paper artist Sirpa Kivilompolo. She has done very interesting experiments of capturing light on paper with watermark pattern technique.

On white handmade paper play of light and shadow creates an elegant and eye-catching illusion. Each of her cards series tells a story. Here are her kuulto– watermark paper cards sold under the name Paperivalo.