Resham Khana Arts Festival

Art has the power to bring about impact - This is a drawing by Prathima Muniyappa for Design for Kashmir a collective that was started to raise funds for the Kashmir Floods.

Art students at Kashmir university use a fallen tree to express their ideas about the state and turmoil.

Insha Manzoor is a young artist from Kashmir all set to go to The Royal College of Art London. She creates installations and portraits made from tying strips of cloth together creating a larger form, usually inspired by faith practices in the area.

Silk Factory visit with like minded people passionate about reviving this beautiful place. The plants conquering old buildings is breathtaking.

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OFFICIAL APATHY PUSHES HISTORIC SILK FACTORY AT RAM BAGH INTO RUINS Once one of the largest producers of silk in the world, the famous Silk Factory at Ram Bagh here is in ruins due to failure of successive regimes to ensure its functioning. In absence of any

A note by Asma Jeelani on the architecture of The Silk Factory - Urban Designer in Kashmir.
'Centrally located in the property the building is surrounded by many other buildings of its kind. The architectural design speaks of its grandeur by way of buttress walls, double height windows, sloping roof profiles together defining the architectural language of the building and telling upon their heritage. Rectangular in shape, the buildings past grandeur is strongly defined by its shear mass which is now be-littled by the fairly new roof canopy built by the PDD Department to serve its workshop requirements. The steel roof and its angle iron beams are anchored to the brick walls callously breaking the brick patterns'

A wonderful article on The Silk Factory, its relevance and importance of revival.

The Cherry Tree – Once the largest Silk Factory in the World Silk Filature in Srinagar (1900)The World War II seems to have changed the destiny of many. The dawdling silk industry of Kashmir, for example got a lifeline during the WW-II as the demand for Kashmiri silk suddenly increased. The price of silk, which was hovering under Rs. 4 per lbs for a long whil...