Overview
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| Calico Textile Museum Ahmedabad |
Calico Museum of Textiles is one of the most seasoned material exhibition halls in the nation and one of the most intriguing spots to visit in Ahmedabad. The displays in this exhibition hall are marvelous which incorporates a huge assortment of a wide range of textures, ancient rarities, uncommon assortments of old fashioned textures, tie and color, pichwai artistic creations, customary Indian small artworks, uncommon assortments of bronze curios and parts more.
The Museum is isolated into two areas - In the principal
segment there is the Haveli where the shows incorporate strict materials,
smaller than usual compositions, antiques, and so on The subsequent area is the
Chauk which has an assortment of ensembles of the Mughal time, rugs,
decorations and so forth
Calico Museum – The
story behind
On occasion, when one goes over the word Calico, much to
one's dismay that it addresses the expert's victory, human progress' pride and
the amazing texture's worth.
One of the most established Indian textures in written
history is called Calico, which is ordinarily a plain white or unbleached
texture made of cotton strings. The Europeans used to visit Kozhikode in
Kerala, known as Calicut for texture exchange during eleventh century. The
texture got its name from the city Calicut as needs be. One of the significant
commodities of antiquated occasions was Calico texture.
The customary weaver local area Chaliyans in Kerala, used to
weave the plain texture and imprinting on texture was done in western and
northern India. The Calico material was Koracotton texture produced using the
finecotton obtained through hot and dry Tamil regions, the regions close to
Palakkad hole in Western Ghat and furthermore from northern Malabar towns.
These printed textures became well known in Europe as Calico prints, likewise
named as 'Chintz'. With time, Europeans became entranced by these textures and
started taking Chintz printed textures with them.
Calico turned out to be very famous with European ladies
andanticipating the flooding interest, East India Company established its
framework in India basically for exchange purposes. By 1631, substantial
imports were being done from Calicut. Before long Manchester, UK saw the rise of
enormous material plants and the exchange flourished.Now theindustrially
produced texture was being sent to Indian portsand thisgravely impacted the
handloom business. In going before years, Indian products for the most part
established colored, printed and painted Calico, which then, at that point,
reduced with industrialization in Manchester.
The traders who visited India for flavors started taking
Chintz printed textures with them for them and soonrealized the extraordinary
interest of these textures at country and Chintz textures turned into a ware of
interest across Europe. John Ovington an English cleric came to India in 1689.
He summed up his perceptions by saying: "In certain things the craftsmen
of India out-do all the creativity of Europe, viz., the artwork of chintes or
callicoes, which in Europe can't be resembled, either in their splendor and
life of shading or in their continuation upon the fabric".
In twelfth century, the calico texture prints with a lotus
configuration was portrayed by Hēmacandra, the author, in Indian writing. By
the fifteenth century the Calico textures tracked down their direction to Egypt
from India From the seventeenth century onwards exchange with Europe followed.
Since the fifteenth century Ahmedabad was a significant exchanging
focus of the material business the sub-mainland. The vicinity of the city to
the beach front shores supported product of completed cotton merchandise and
the dark soil of the district was a significant benefit in cotton estate.
During the British principle Ahmedabad became well known as 'Manchester of
India' consequently. Because of its developing notoriety, a Calico plant was
set up in Ahmedabad in 1880.
The plant creation was halted in 1998. A significant issue
for the organization has been changed imports and the unloading of modern
natural substances by goliath unfamiliar enterprises.
The Sarabhai family was prevalently Textile Mill proprietors
and later enhanced into production of filaments, plastics, synthetics and
drugs.
Ambalal Sarabhai was the originator of Calico Textile Mills
and Sarabhai Textiles. In 1904, Ambalal Sarabhai had constructed a 21 section
of land home called the 'Retreat' in Shahibaug, Ahmedabad. Ananda Kentish
Coomaraswamy was a prominent history specialist and rationalist of Indian Art
who accomplished praiseworthy work in both writing and Swadeshi development.
Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy, in discussions with Gautam Sarabhai (child of Ambalal
Sarabhai and sibling of prestigious researcher Vikram Sarabhai), the youthful
Chairman of Calico Mills, in 1946, recomm Calibri (Body)ended the establishing
of a Textile Museum in Ahmedabad. The idea driving setting up this gallery was
to make mindfulness and preserve and enable the material legacy of the country.
Inside the Calico factories mind boggling, the Museum was initiated in 1949 by
India's first Prime Minister, Shri Jawaharlal Nehru.
The historical center was initially housed at the Calico
Mills yet in 1983, as the assortment developed, the gallery was moved to the
Sarabhai House in Shahibaug.
Sarabhai-ni-Haveli and the Chauk are the two premises inside
the Retreat in this exhibition hall today.
A stupendous Mansion called the Haveli, where the visit
starts, welcomes you into its tremendous open lobbies having trim marble
flooring, expansive flights of stairs, open galleries and porch with mosaic
ground surface that disregard the nurseries.
A view from the Chauk or yard gives you a flashback to old
private Gujarati lifestyle. Amazing wooden cantilevered overhangs, heavenly
wood carvings of parrot, elephant, botanical themes, God, Goddess, frescoes,
elaborate entryway sections and handles are shown in this display. This wooden
façade today was initially obtained from decrepit customary Gujarati manors of
old Ahmedabad to protect the legacy work.
Calico Museum is the should visit place for all the style
and material darlings, to know and experience our rich Indian Textile legacy.
Address
The Retreat, Airport Rd,
Opp. Rani Sati Mandir, Jain Colony, Shahibaug, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380004