A priceless, tattered fabric in a museum can speak volumes for the cross-currents of culture which produced it and throw light on the international trade relations that prevailed at the time of its production. Safar-Nama: Journeys through a Kalamkari Hanging, an exhibition of digital prints of an ancient painted fabric piece in the kalamkari tradition that prevailed in the Coromandel Coast and is now housed at the Museum of Printed Textiles of Mulhouse in France, along with Continuing Traditions, a show of contemporary artists whose works can relate to it, was opened in the first-floor corridor of the Indian Museum by tourism minister Bratya Basu on Wednesday. The exhibition,...
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