I took the fast train to London last Friday to catch the highly acclaimed ‘Fabric of India’ exhibition which closes today.

Drawn by reports of natural dyeing goodness, I discovered far more to intrigue and inspire me.

Informative videos were included to give further context to the processes involved in the production of each piece so in the absence of photographs which weren’t allowed (apart from the rebel image above!) I’ve included these all together in this article in the hope that they’ll remain online after the exhibition closes.

The videos were vital because in the West we are so used to seeing Indian textiles, often being sold cheaply on the high street (or reproduced in digital versions) that we might assume the pieces had been mass produced in a factory. The videos showed the incredible effort, time and devotion involved in the following techniques which are such an intrinsic part of the Indian heritage.

Indigo Dyeing from Victoria and Albert...