From the field · 1 October 2026
Thirty-eight days: the arithmetic of an Uppada jamdani
Two weavers, one loom, and a figure built thread by thread against the ground. Where thirty-eight days actually goes.
Stories
The slow half of the site
Not a blog — four shelves. Documentary films, written field notes from travel, a reference library for the loom's own words, and the map of where this work has been and goes next.
Films
Documentary footage with chapters, captions and a full transcript.
Field Notes
Written on the road — dated, placed, and the closest thing here to a blog.
From the field · 1 October 2026
Handloom or powerloom: five things to look for
A powerloom saree can pass for handloom in a photograph. In your hands it cannot. Five checks, none of which takes more than a few seconds.
From the field · 1 October 2026
Two weeks at Bhoodan Pochampally
Ninety minutes east of Hyderabad, a whole town ties and dyes its yarn before it weaves a thread. A fortnight watching the arithmetic of double ikat.
Weaving Library
Terminology, tools, techniques and history. Evergreen on purpose — corrected, never re-dated.
5 entries
Terminology
The words the loom shed actually uses, defined the way the shed uses them.
5 entries
Tools
The objects between the yarn and the cloth. None of them has changed much in a century, because none of them has needed to.
5 entries
Techniques
What the clusters in the catalogue actually do — the same names the filter rail uses.
3 entries
History
How the cloth got here. Evergreen by intent: these entries are corrected, never re-dated.
Travel Map
5 clusters documented, 2 on the route ahead.
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