The Calico Museum of Textiles

         The Calico Museum of TextilesIn 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

Indian Textiles influenced by the Mughal and Provincial Courts 17th-19th Century

Textile Trade of India with the outside world – 15th-19th Century

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)

Indian Tie-Dyed Fabrics

Techniques of Weaving and Dyeing

Indian Embroidery Techniques

Wooden Blocks for Printing on cloth

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

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

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

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

Ground floor plan

First floor plan

Toilet section Section through a room