Clever Contiguity in Design - Wood Block Princes

The thing that makes and the thing that's made are sweet sets. Here is one of the three blocks that made the printed fabric on the lower edge.

A morning spent in a wood block print workshop in Jaipur , under the patient tutelage of two adept craftsmen,  whose sense of detail, balance and alignment is enviable, shows me that while ( see below) less would have been more there is more than one way of getting into print.

Who Put the Bull in the Tuk Tuk?

Old Delhi, charismatic and pluralistic when it comes to getting from here to there. Foot, tuk-tuk, motorbike, and yoked beast, here  all in one aperture . This Brahmin bull, with beautiful red horns that match the tuk tuk's roof and such peaceable demeanour seems almost like the tuk-tuk's passenger.

Bells Ring, Drums Beat - All Night Vigil in Pushkar

At the centre of Pushkar's Camel Fair is religious festival, and at the temples around the  Lake bells ring and drums beat late into the night , the mood,  hypnotic and ecstatic, with the air hazy with smoke from fireworks, crowds of people milling to watch dancers and acrobats, offerings of candles and flowers floating out from the temples on the lake's edge

The Lovely Honeycombing of Light - Jaali in Rajasthan

Geometric, tessellated, stone work jaali or jail screens seem to cleverly concentrate any breeze, perhaps its the smaller apertures and the winds want to get out quickly through other doors.  Their lovely articulation of the view, and the implicit invitation to get close and spy on the outside world is not to be underestimated.