Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale (Tsai CITY)'s mission is to inspire students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to solve real-world problems.
Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale activates creative research and practice across disciplines to advance the cultural landscape of our time.
The Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale
Thinai Foundation is an independent non-profit research organisation operating on three program lines: Crafts and communities, Arts and Architecture, and other supporting independent and collaborative inquiries. We intend to explore topics by combining critical inspection and creative expression.
THINAI FOUNDATION
DakshinaChitra is an exciting cross cultural living museum of art, architecture, lifestyles, crafts and performing arts of South India. The main mission is to exhibit, promote and preserve aspects of the broader, more inclusive cultures of the states and to bring these arts to the public in a participative, enjoyable and engaging way.
DAKSHINACHITRA
Co-optex is basically engaged in marketing of Handloom fabrics produced in Tamilnadu. Handlooms constitute a priceless asset of Tamilnadu′s rich cultural heritage. These fabrics marketed by Co-optex, represent an aesthetic quality of high order and represent a great social cause. The demands and challenges of the market is responded to by Co-optex with the rich tradition and well honed skills of its weavers.
C0-OPTEX
Credits
The Real Madras Handkerchief: Squares Unravelling Stories; March, 2017; Discover India Program; FLAME University
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Musquiz, Albert. Bleeding Madras – Under the Skin of a Colonial Fabric, Heddels, May 7, 2018. https://www.heddels.com/2018/05/history-madras-fabric/
Sampath, Janani. How Madras lost its Textile legacy in checks, The Federal, August 23, 2019. https://thefederal.com/states/south/tamil-nadu/how-madras-lost-its-textile-legacy-in-checks/?infinitescroll=1
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Davidson, Amy. History of Madras. Plumager, https://plumager.com/blogs/plumager-print-design/history-of-madras
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Roberts, Richard. “Guinée Cloth: Linked Transformations within France’s Empire in the Nineteenth Century (À Propos Des Étoffes Dites ‘Guinées’: Transformations Liées à La Production
Dans l’empire Français Au Cours Du XIXe Siècle).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines, vol. 32, no. 128, 1992, pp. 597–627. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4392412. Accessed 27 Aug. 2024.
Amalsad, D M. Development of the Madras Handkerchief and Lungy or Kaily Industry in the Madras Presidency. 1926, Superintendent Government Press, Madras.
Roy T. Madras handkerchiefs in the interwar period. The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 2002;39(2-3):285-300. doi:10.1177/001946460203900208