© Areez Katki 2020
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دیوار مهربانی
Dīvār-E Mehrabānī
Wall of Kindness
North Tehran, 2018 -
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ابریشم
Abresham
Vegetable-dyed skeins of spun silk
Tabriz, 2018 -
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MOZAFFARIYEH
Early Zoroastrian & Elamite iconography on Senne Kilim rugs, flat-woven by matriarchs from nomadic tribes around West Azerbaijan. From tutorials with Omid at the Carpet Quarter of the Grand Bazaar of Tabriz.
Iran, 2018 -
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A major point between East and West trade routes along the Silk Road. Tabriz's Grand Bazaar is still the world's largest covered market and one of the oldest, with foundations dating back to the 11th Century AD.
Tabriz, 2018 -
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Clay Fertility Goddess. Circa 7000 - 6100 BC.
Neolithic matriarchal cult relic, excavated from Tappeh Sarab (present day Kermanshah).
From the National Museum of Iran.
Tehran 2018 -
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Katayun weaving a Kushti.
Zoroastrian prayer girdle made of finely
handspun virgin wool.
Mumbai 2018 -
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PERSEPOLIS
Takht-E-Jamshid, Fars
Iran, September 2018 -
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Darning + Embroidery
Zardozi needlework applied over a repurposed dust rag. Textile and iconograhy
sourced from the Tata Trust & various Parsi domestic settings.
Mumbai 2018 -
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Parsi Gara Embroidery Workshops
Led by Zenobia Davar
April 2018 -
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Gregg Shorthand Notebook, 1972 (extract)
Courtesy of Yasmin Lakdawalla
Mumbai, August 2018 -
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Studio needlework panel (detail)
Mumbai, June 2018 -
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Marukh & Naju - Parsi Toran weavers
Mumbai, April 2018 -
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Open-Loom Beaded Torans
Parsi Heirloom Objects
Mumbai, April 2018 -
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Restoration and needlework on a 200 year old fragment of Sudreh muslin.
Handwoven in West Bengal.
Mumbai, June 2018 -
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Everyday cloth: Handwoven 'Katka' rags.
Customarily woven on smaller looms by younger weaving apprentices, using waste cotton fibres from larger looms. Sourced from various locations around Maharashtra and Gujarat.
Mumbai, March 2018 -
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Tea with Aunt Dolly. Neighbour and one of our closest friends, who taught two generations of children from the Lakdawalla-Katki family how to embroider, knit and crochet.
Mumbai, April 2018 -
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Studio needlework panels (detail)
Mumbai, May 2018 -
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Parsi Fire Temple: Batliwalla Agiary façade.
Established in 1915
Mumbai, May 2018
© Areez Katki 2020