The Mela: Craft’s Distribution Model
By Border&Fall
As steady and robust centres for the sale of Indian artisanal crafts, melas (market fairs) have been held across India for over 1300 years. They are a part of many consumers’ landscape of nostalgia, almost everyone brought up in India can attest to attending at least one.

Craft Today: The Artisan & Innovation

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The Buddha Family
By Border&Fall
As seventh generation block printers, the Buddha family has become renowned as specialists in large scale vegetable dyeing, possibly due to a remarkably innovative approach to production. What sets them apart? What drives them to be different?
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A Looming Issue
By Border&Fall
The hand and power loom dynamic: a daunting ecosystem for a modern karigar to negotiate in order to survive. Delving into this subject requires an understanding of many ground realities, and one of our primary intentions with this account is to cover basic context.
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