Ant's project space

Some reference images I'm gathering for my class on choli tops for Rowany Festival. Detail from a folio from a Kalpasutra Manuscrip...

Star and cross tiles in a manuscript. From Bābur Seeks His Grandmother's Advice Leaf from the Read Mughal Album, but formerly fol. 86...

Due to my, mostly, successful block printing experiment I've started looking into different patterns and styles of drape on Persian ga...

I made my first attempt at block printing today. I spent a bit of time over the last week browsing online how-to's and gathering images...

  Japanese fabric (?) I found on flicker, so simple and effective. Since making the previous mint cushion , I've been pondering m...

Cotton red and brown block printed textile from Fustat, Egypt. Item 73.408 The Textile Museum I don't tend to do image round-...

The star tile reference for tile 2 is about 150 years older than the reference for tile 1. Tile 2 shares some of the references for the...

Ceramic number 13, my first tile in blue 28. So I worked on this one for about a week. I originally bought some tiles when I collected...

I'm practicing shading for my next complicated plate. I'm rather happy with how this one turned out, though he looks like he has a ...

Last night I completed another cushion for my collection. I'm aiming to make a pile for in front of the heater for winter napping and b...

Cream cotton sari drying on the line (strange concept for the Americans, older rentals don't come with white goods here, and we'...

Some things about blue to read later The invention of blue and purple pigments in ancient times by H Berke Page 47 in Part 5, Scientif...

So having gotten the hard part of my first Persian outfit out of the way by simply buying the upper garments I now have to create a full ou...

This year at Pennsic I was super lucky and managed to acquire some sarees from Flori of Northshield. She and her partner are moving back to...