Art and Design

Author: Aditi Jain, Ruchi Shah, Verena Gerlach, Henning Wagenbreth

This collective book project features the work of artists from India and Germany. Inspired by images which feature in traditional Indian block-printed textiles, each has created a distinctive visual narrative, adapting and reworking existing logics of pattern-making. Letterpress-printed on handmade paper and encased in a block-printed cloth cover, this title is a tribute to a versatile craft and to printing traditions that straddle book and cloth.An astounding range of patterns, motifs and decorative elements is found in block-printed textiles in India. What happens when four artists –practising in different fields of the visual arts— – set out on a journey to explore this unusual visual universe, to reimagine and adapt its content to new mediums?

ISBN 9789390037063. Tara Books. hb. letterpress & block printed. 84 pages. 21 x 28 cm.