Title: The  Kalamkari industry Kalamkari industry of Masulipatam
Description: On the art of hand painting with vegetable dyes on cotton fabric.
The kalamkari industry of Masulipatam was instrumental in helping the  Dutch , Frech and the English east India companies to vie with each other in spice trade as chintz cloth of masulipatam served as a ready medium for barter and thus they could thrive as trading companies eventually the EEIC fecilitating the colonisation of India by the British in 1867.
Subjects: Textile fabrics, Textile painting, Textile printing
Places: India, Machilipatnam