Colors of India

My feet are back on US soil now, and I am having
a 4 hour layover at Newark Airport. My journey back will be 36 hours
door-to-door, from the hotel in Varanasi to my home in Boulder Colorado. I saw
lots of flood damage in India, so there was a curious parallel during my trip
as I read about Boulder, but saw the effects of last month's monsoon floods in
rural and urban India.

As I have posted on my blog
and on my personal Facebook page
during the trip, I've had queries about whether eQuilter will carry Indian
fabrics.

Actually, we have always carried fabrics from India, and designer collections
inspired by India. I've made a list of these below, so you can start to see the
fabric that inspired me to go to India, and what is inspiring me to create over
the last couple weeks.

Indian themed categories:

Bollywood,
Elephants & Faux Ikats

Paisleys,
Peacocks
& Tigers

Fabrics from India:

Cotton
Yarn Dyes and Ikats from Textile Creations

Shot
Cottons from Kaufman, Andover, and &
Lam? from Textile Creations

eQuilter
Value-Priced Batiks

Designers Inspired by India's Colors:

Jinny
Beyer – from the years she lived there.

Kaffe
Fassett – he keeps a village employed with his yarn-dye
and shot cotton orders.

(See my video
interview with Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably about his shot cottons!)

I'm dreaming in these Indian Colors:

Saffron Gold

Jaipur Orange

Red Curry

Rajastan Pink

Lime Green

Peacock Teal

Jodphur Blue

Ganges Lavender

More Color Inspiration:

Hindu Wedding Red

Turmeric and Marigold

Krishna Blue

Rice Paddy Green

Lotus Pink

Taj White

Henna Red

Red Fort Terracotta

One of the biggest spice surprises on the trip was the color and smell of
*fresh* Cardamom seeds! I have never seen them so fresh and green at the Asian
market in Boulder, but now I have to try and track them down. The smell is
sweet and spicy but really clears out your sinuses!

Many thanks to our friend and hostess in Delhi – my new friend Anju.

If you follow my
fellow traveler Pam Holland, you'll also see more photos and videos popping
up on her blog. She is on her way to Dubai today, and will be teaching in
Abruzzo in Italy next weekend.

I have several thousand photos and I am distilling them down and posting on my Flickr photo page.…but
now I have to go catch that plane home to Colorado!