The 17th century English explorer Edward Terry wrote of his visit to India : "The natives there show very much ingenuity in their curious manufactures, as in their silk stuffs, which they most artificially weave, some very neatly mingled either with silver or gold or both..." It is these glowing, glistening, lustrous "silk stuffs" that are the subject of a dazzling exhibition at the National Crafts Museum & Hastakala Academy in New Delhi, in February. Vayan - The Art of Indian Brocades is the second in a series of small but significant textile exhibitions, curated by Mayank Mansingh Kaul for the Devi Foundation, in collaboration with the National Crafts Museum. Representing a period broadly from the 19th century to the present, the exhibits are drawn from both their collections.
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