The Archaeology of Warp, Weft and Felt
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09 Oct
2025
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Indian Aesthetics
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Kurush F. Dalal
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Image: Textile Fragment, 15th–16th century
Clothes maketh the man, a saying that goes back to Homer is proof enough of their importance. But whence came clothes? When did they transition from hides to textiles? What journey did these textiles take? What went into their manufacture, their design, the making of looms, etc? What were the sources of their fibres and their colours? To understand the answers to these questions we have little choice but to turn towards archaeology and its allied disciplines. Come with Jnanapravaha and Dr. Dalal on a journey back in time to the beginnings of textile manufacture and the culmination of their adventure today.
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October 9, 2025
Timing: Tea: 6:00 PM | Lecture: 6:30 - 8:30 PM IST
Registrations will open on 09-Sep-2025
Kurush F. Dalal
Kurush F Dalal has a BA in Ancient Indian History and History from the University of Mumbai, an MA in Archaeology as well as a PhD on the early Iron Age in Rajasthan, both from Deccan College, Pune University. Subsequently he has excavated the sites of Sanjan, Chandore and Mandad: the last site has revealed a hitherto unknown Indo-Roman Port site with ancient antecedents. Dr. Dalal also actively works on Memorial Stones and Ass-curse Stones in India and dabbles in Numismatics, Defense Archaeology, Architecture, Ethnoarchaeology and allied disciplines. He is the CoDirector of the Salcette Explorations Project. He has published extensively and taught widely. Dr Dalal inherited a catering business and has been researching food all his life. In the last decade he has lectured on Food and Archaeology and Culinary Anthropology, and has run The Studying Food Workshop since 2019. As a culinary museum consultant and an archaeological museum consultant he is currently working on a corporate multi-museum project. He is now Chief Education Officer (CEdO) at Gyaan Factory.