Jaya Jaitly calls a gamchha the “Swiss Army knife” of fabrics because it has around 25 known uses. “It is everywhere, yet no one notices it. Neither an exotic Kanjeevaram, nor a feted ...

The simple and coarse cloth, barely 70 inches x 35 inches, woven from leftover yarn, is what most of India uses to wipe its ...

Jaya Jaitly. In 2015, she commissioned women weavers in Phulia, West Bengal to create 100 gamchha sarees. She calls the fabric a silent companion and says, “It is everywhere, yet no one notices ...

"We hope to bring the gamchha into focus as a symbol of Indian design thinking at its grassroots level," says Jaya Jaitly, president, Dastkari Haat Samiti, the organisers of the exhibition.