textile museum case study,ahmedabad,india

1. The Calico Museum of Textiles

2. The Calico Museum of Textiles
In 1893 the textile museum shifted from the calico mills to ‘sarabhai ni haveli’
The haveli has a beautiful chauk with connected houses.
It is around 100 years old with intricate wooden carving on the facade

3. Indian Textiles influenced by the Mughal and Provincial Courts
17th-19th Century
Textile Trade of India with the outside world – 15th-19th
Century

4. Indian Costumes in the Calico Collection – 18th to mid-20th
Century
Regional Embroideries of India 19th Century
(Sindh, Kutch, Kathiawad, Tamilnadu, Orissa, Mithila (Bihar),
Bengal, Punjab, Chamba (Himachal Pradesh)

5. Indian Tie-Dyed Fabrics
Techniques of Weaving and Dyeing

6. Indian Embroidery Techniques
Wooden Blocks for Printing on cloth

7. The display of ‘patch work’,the traditional handicraft pattern
of Gujarat

8. Primary textile techniques
• Using one thread of limited length-
looping
• Using one thread of unlimited length-
knitting
• Use of passive and active system-
wraping,bidding,coiling
• Use of alternatives-
braiding,interlacking,oblique twinning

9. Different types of hand work on cloth
• Stitching
• Quilting
• Counted thread work
• White work
• Mirror work
• Metal work
• Embroidery with beads
• Applique and patch work

10. Traditional Indian handicraft patterns
• Bandhani
• Laheriya
• kalambari
• Bandha
• Mashru
• kachipuram
• Madhubani
• patolu
• Salong

11. Ground floor plan

12. First floor plan

13. Toilet section Section through a room