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How to soak up the Pollachi experience?

October 3, 2024October 10, 2024cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Try your hand at pottery, spend a day farming with an award-winning agripreneur or trek to the foothills of Anamalai Hills soaking up the Pollachi experience Source link

Cozy and comfortable spaces to learn art and craft are on the rise in Thiruvananthapuram

February 2, 2024February 2, 2024cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Want to learn how to make dolls, macrame, decoupage, crochet, or pottery? Thiruvananthapuram has many intimate, comfy places that host classes in these disciplines. Know more about these spaces and the people behind them. Casa Mi Amor Manjima Ravikumar at Casa Mi Amor | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT A year ago that Manjima Ravikumar opened […]

Potters across India come together at Bengaluru Studio Potters Market

December 7, 2023December 7, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Miniature creations by Ajay A | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Over the years, especially during the pandemic period, a number of art forms have become part of the everyday routine of many. Be it crochet, quilling, or knitting, the therapeutic side of these art forms has appealed to people across age groups and gender. One […]

The Kumbhkári Project crafts functional pottery in kolam and textile designs

November 10, 2023November 10, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Chinmayee Sridharan with her creations | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement A couple of years ago, a vibrant illustrated poster on Instagram led Chinmayee Sridharan on a new career path. The poster — by ceramicist Vivitsa Kohli — had Chinmayee sign up for a month-long intensive residential course with Vivitaa. The kolam davara tumblers | Photo […]

At the Collage X Artmosphere collaboration find handcrafted dinner sets and lamps for Deepavali

September 20, 2023September 20, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Ceramicist Sushma Anand, with her collection of lamps and dinnerware at Collage | Photo Credit: RAVINDRAN R As an eight-year-old, Sushma Anand made her first clay figurine: A ball of clay with sticks as hands and legs. This was for a class project. Little did she know then, that this would become her full time […]

Ceramist Rahul Kumar’s installations in his new show are a deviation from his previous experiments with clay

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

The aesthetic core of ceramic artist Rahul Kumar’s fresh-off-the-wheel artwork, displayed at New Delhi’s gallery Exhibit 360, lies in expressing the obscure with abstract. His 10th solo exhibition of ceramics, The Untold Resides Somewhere, is a labyrinth of emotive, lexical and metaphorical expressions for “preserving the discarded and communicating by not telling”. He says, “Is […]

An eco-friendly gifting guide for New Year 2023

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Hand-embroidered journals by Tanya Bahl The self-taught artist based in Ladakh draws inspiration from the minute details she spots in Nature, and this is evident in her intricate artwork featuring delicate cosmos flowers, lantern lilies, Athangudi tiles and the Portuguese Azulejo. Read more |A zero-waste gift packaging guide for Christmas and New Year Tanya, who […]

How to learn new skills while you holiday this New Year

December 16, 2022December 16, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Sitting and working with my hands at a loom in Kathmandu, I come to realise that the meditative art of weaving was not what I had hoped it would be. Instead, as a left-handed person, I was floundering with getting the warp and weft in the right order, and found that the malleable water hyacinth […]

Madras Finds’ The Jolly Ol’ Pop Up is in Chennai this weekend

December 15, 2022December 15, 2022cpooldigitalLeave a Comment

Shoppers at the 2021 Christmas pop-up at The Folly, Amethyst | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Ever since Nivedita Ganeshram of Madras Finds hosted her first pop-up last year, her Instagram page (@ madrasfinds) has been the go-to platform for Chennai’s homegrown brands. Now, after hoisting a ramen pop-up earlier this year, she is back with […]