Weaving and textile designing is a relatively new section at Norbulingka. The yarn woven is mostly organic cotton or eri silk, also called ahimsa silk, because this silk is extracted AFTER the silk worm has left the cocoon. (We had done a special feature on Eri and Muga silk some...

Did you know there are atleast 20 different types of hand embroideries done in different parts of India? To add to that, there are variants and sub variants in each type. Count all the basic types and their variants and sub-variants and we may be looking at close to a hundred types...