Dimasa Textile Motifs

Visual and Material Arts
in Image Gallery
Published on: 08 May 2018

Gargee Bhattacharjee

Gargee Bhattacharjee is a PhD research scholar at the Department of Visual Arts, Assam University, Silchar. Her areas of interest are the traditional practices and knowledge systems of indigenous communities.

A visual representation of textile motifs with their associated meanings, used in the handlooms woven by the women of the Dimasa Kachari community of southern Assam