All tagged design
This is a study of flowers and garlands in Tamil South India as they travel through temples and markets and are grown, sold, and bought by a variety of communities. Various threads of sensory engagements, including colors, fragrances, and the clamor of the market and festive temple grounds, all accumulate into a sense of community aesthetics and sensational forms, from which a devotee might draw to participate.
This essay reflects on the process of and strategies employed in film costume design in India. Using a series of photographs taken during ethnographic field research, the essay reveals the varied work of film costume personnel and crafts artisans who help realize the ambitious storytelling style of Indian film.
Karina Rima Melati examines the development of the batik buketan (bouquet) motif and how the creativity and labor of batik workers in Pekalongan of the North Coastal region in Central Java, Indonesia, helped contest, produce and reproduce what has now come to be known as an iconic batik style of that area. Melati draws from previous studies of batik in different contexts, the marginality of batik labor, the growing trend of batik, batik and the postcolonial theoretical framework, and batik from a global perspective.
