La Miniatura -- built in Pasadena in 1923 -- is remarkable, even by Frank Lloyd Wright standards. One of only four of the famed architect’s local textile-block designs, this renovated home is ...

Sisters Hopie and Lily Stockman created Block Shop Textiles, which sells everything from scarves and robes to rugs and homewares, to bring the printing techniques they have admired throughout their ...

If there was ever a model of a small-scale family business that embraces creative and strategic thinking in near equal measure while making beautiful, soulful goods, Block Shop is it. Sisters Hopie ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painter Kelly Witmer’s work often depicts geometric pattern on repeat, similar to the final product of a block-printed textile or ...

What is dabu pritiAbout 30 minutes away from Maharana Pratap Airport in Udaipur, you enter a compound where your eyes straightaway go to the yards of cotton fabric hanging from bamboo poles high above ...

For Block Shop Textiles, prototyping starts on a print shop floor in Bagru, Rajasthan. It’s there that founders (and sisters) Lily and Hopie Stockman lay out their design sketches, painted on water ...

Let's rewind to the 1970s; a new era that would firmly affix Mumbai’s status as the nation’s fashion capital. The city’s fashionistas awoke to Bombay’s (as it was known then) first-ever ‘designer’ ...