© Areez Katki 2020
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Diu Head—
The first point of documented settlement for C. VIII Zoroastrian refugees
Kathiawar Peninsula, Gujarat -
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Nurse clay figurine of a female seated on a stool embracing her infant.
C. 3200 BC [Late Neolithic II] Excavated from Sesklo
National Archaeological Museum, Athens -
![Haft Sein]()
هفتسین
Haft Sein Table
Mumbai, Nowruz 2019 -
![Mumbai]()
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![Mumbai parrots]()
Psittacula krameri
Mumbai, 2019 -
![Surat 3]()
Shahenshah Ātash Behram
Priests' ritual quarters
Surat, Gujarat -
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Schematic violin-shaped figurines
Early Cycladic I [Bronze age] 3200—2800 BC
Benaki Museum Collection, Athens. -
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Kitchen Window—
Sir Ratan Tata Parsi Colony
Mumbai, 2019 -
![Studio 3]()
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Form studies [Psittacara]
Mumbai 2019 -
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Qadmi Ātash Behram
Surat, Gujarat -
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![Udwada]()
World Zoroastrian Organisation
Udwada, Gujarat -
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Sampler panel embroidered with zoological specimens
and ephemera indicating 'Prika' [Greek dowry]
motifs fromthe Epirote region.
Benaki Museum Collection, Athens, Greece.
Ioannina, Epirus. C. XVIII -
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Ottoman era embroidered shawl [C. XVII] on silk.
Benaki Museum Collection, Athens. -
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Studio wall
Mumbai 2019 -
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Lakdawalla family heirloom
19th C. embroidered shawl featuring stylised vegetal and paisley motifs,
single-floss silk thread on wool. -
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Giorgio Morandi
Natura Morta, 1953
Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan -
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Προικα—Prika
Embroidered dowry panels depicting bridal procession
in silk floss, uncounted threadwork using Byzantine stitch.
C. XVI Skyros, Sporades.
Benaki Museum Collection, Athens -
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Natural History Wing
The Indian Museum
Calcutta -
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Chor [formerly 'Shohr'] Bazaar
Mumbai 2018 -
![Udwada 2]()
Ilm-E-Khnoom Centre
Udwada Agiyari [built 1967] -
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![Tehran Wall of Kindness]()
دیوار مهربانی
Dīvār-E Mehrabānī
Wall of Kindness
North Tehran, 2018 -
![Sudreh Making 1]()
Construction of the Zoroastrian Sudreh
Markar Museum, Yazd, Iran -
![Tabriz Silk Wall]()
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 -
![Gregg Shorthand Diary (Yasmin Lakdawalla, 1974)]()
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 -
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Mumbai
Jehangir Art Gallery.Comissioned by Parsi art patron Sir Cowasjee Jehangir in dedication to his late son.
Built by Durga Bajpai in 1952
May 2018 -
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© Areez Katki 2020