History and Technique

History and Technique

The manufacturing of sophisticated textiles in India is as ancient as its civilization. The discovery of dyed cotton fabric dates back to the Indus Valley civilization. The art of dying with the use of mordants was well known to Indian dyers some 5,000 years ago. This form of dying which reveals a mastery in the chemistry of dying was responsible for making India famous all over the world for its dyed and printed fabrics.

Block printing is practiced in regions of India where a cotton or silk fabric is printed with the help of wooden blocks, with beautifully carved designs. First the outline block is printed, after which the blocks for filling in the colours are to be utilized. If the background is to be a light colour, the cloth is dyed after the printing has been completed. Normally, three to four colours of earth natural vegetable dyes are used.

History of India in art and design

This book forms part of the New Cambridge History of India’s commendable effort to integrate art history into its historical concerns. It was preceded by three earlier volumes, Architecture of Mughal India (Catherine B. Asher), Mughal and Rajput Painting (Milo C. Beach), and Architecture and Art of Southern India by one of the authors of the present volume (George Michell). The volume amply fulfills the agenda of the Cambridge Histories laid down in the general Editor’s Preface, namely not only to “record an existing state of knowledge” but also “to focus interest on research” and to provide “stimulus to further work” (xviii). Both authors were well equipped to shoulder this task. Michell came to the architecture of the Deccan through his work on Vijayanagara, the Hindu kingdom that closely interacted on the political as well as on the cultural level with several of the Deccani sultanates, and he became familiar with the specific problems of the Islamic architecture of the Deccan by editing the 1986 Marg volume Islamic Heritage of the Deccan. Mark Zebrowski established himself as the leading authority on Deccani painting with his 1983 volume on this subject, which was based on his dissertation; he has also published...

design of THE PICTURE FRAME

THE PICTURE FRAME, as it exists today, is derived from the doorway or entrance to temples, palaces and cathedrals. From a functional viewpoint, it might have been more practical to place doors at the sides of these buildings, but the importance of the door framing an impressive picture of the interior was never overlooked.

The need to enhance a picture or bas-relief with a frame is evidenced from the earliest times. The first decorations were necessarily crude; a raised line sometimes being the only ornament.

The earliest examples of frame-like decorations or borders bear a great resemblance to door frames. They were composed of two columns surmounted by a con-necting entablature and this form persisted into the 15th century. Even the decorations painted by the artists around the edges of pictures before the intro-duction of movable frames were similar in form.

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London Design Festival

The design-art movement was the commanding topic at the London Design Festival last week, leaving many of us wondering where to draw the line between the two. Here’s my friend Helen’s definition: “If your kids can sit on it, it’s furniture. If they can’t, it’s art.”

design = art