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Please note: A full detailed itinerary is contained in the brochure.
This can be obtained by contacting Indian Romance. (Contact
Indian Romance)
If you are a non Textile person or painter you are very welcome. This Tour
is a particularly good introduction to India and is definitely off the
beaten track. Partners, husbands and friends are also welcome and have from
my long experience always very very much enjoyed the Tour.
I should emphasis that it is a busy tour with programmes nearly everyday. So if you wish to leave out any programme out and just
relax then please do so. This is 'your' holiday.
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Day 1: London-Bombay.
International flight to Bombay met and transferred to hotel.
Day 2: London-Bombay.
Transfer for flight to Bhuj. On arrival check into Hotel Prince. After
lunch visit Bhujodi village weavers who produce blankets and woven lengths
for the local communities. We will also visit a Rabbari textile collector.
Day 3: Mundra.
Visit to Mundra for Wax resist block printing and felt making for
textilers. Painters will work from the same environs.. return to Bhuj.
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Indian Carpet Making
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Day 4: Mandavi.
Continue to Mandavi. Mandavi is famous for boat building, wonderful images for the painters. Textilers have a very special workshop with Mochi embroiderer. Return to Bhuj
Day 5: Tye Dye Workshop.
Morning or full days workshop with Master Craftsmen in tye dye 'Bandani'. Own Dinner.
Day 5/6: Villages of Kutch.
For me this is one of the highlights of the tour, when we go to stay in the villages of Kutch. We will stay in a village house set aside for us and will be going bush as they say. We take our own food with us and our own cook. We will have demonstrations in various types of embroidery, with a shisha workshop, and be privileged to witness and observe the wonderful life styles of these pastoralists. We will also see demonstrations of other crafts such as bell making, wood carving and lacqyer work. The village is a visual treat for painters.
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Day 7: Gold and Silver thread workshop.
For the first time this year we will have a full days workshop in Gold and Silver thread while the painters will paint from this beautiful remote and particularly untouched village hamlet. All the ladies wear their traditional embroidered garments, a rich subject for the painters. Lunch will be cooked for us and in the late afternoon we return to Bhuj.
Day 8: Block Printing Workshop.
En route to our safari camp we will visit a block printing workshop. After lunch we will have a workshop with the snake charmers. The snake charmers produce their own style of embroidery. Painters to take advantage of the subjects.
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Rabari Herdsmen
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Day 9: Fair.
Day spent at Fair with a break for lunch. You must have a really good camera with you.
Day 10: Workshop in Village Fair.
Workshop in village fair with Rabbari. Textilers workshop and Painters to paint.
Day 11: Kanbi Patel.
Workshop with Kanbi Patel and Rabbari in villages about 25km away from camp. Take lunch of Francis to cook for us.
Day 12: Morning in Fair.
Morning again at the fair. The fair has moved but is is good we are following it to its next location. We then continue to Zainabad in the afternoon. Zainabad is a wildlife sanctuary.
Day 13: Zainabad Wildlife Snctuary.
Morning at leisure or to see the wild ass and birds on the Rann. The wild ass is to be found nowhere else in the world but here. Afternoon own choice.
Day 14: Moderna Sun Temple.
Days visit for both textilers and painters. First to temple at Becharg then to Moderna Sun Temple. Painters to stay here, textilers to continue to Patan to see the Mushru weaving a double woven cloth with silk on the top and cotton underneath specially woven for Muslims to wear. Our second visit is to the famous Patan Double Ikat Weavers now the only family in the world able to produce this wonderful weaving. The cloth is woven from space tie dyed warp and weft threads.
Day 15: Ahmedabad.
Early start to Ahmedabad. After lunch visit the Calico Museum. Own dinner.
Day 16: Day of Leisure.
We are at a very nice hotel with a pretty garden and swimming pool. I think a day of leisure is a good idea. However for those who want to paint or experience textiles I have a good program for both...after an early dinner we take the night sleeper to Jaipur. For those leaving the tour to take the international flight.
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