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We were at a mall last evening to fulfill
Abba’s request for Pizza Hut, and when we tried to leave we found ourselves
locked in, as the motorcade took its sweet time passing by on the distant
street. It seemed overkill to us, but
Sonia Gandhi’s family does have a violent past, with her husband Rajiv
assassinated and her mother-in-law Indira Gandhi before him also assassinated,
so perhaps I’d error on the side of caution as well.
Yesterday was a state holiday, so we took a
fun field trip to the small neighboring town of Amer to visit the Anokhi HandBlock Printing Museum. The museum is inside a beautifully restored haveli, and
the preservation project earned a UNESCO award for ‘Cultural
Conservation’ in 2000.
Abba just finished a week’s apprenticeship in
small neighboring community of Sanganer at the hands of a block print master, a
master who spoke only 2 words of English to her, of which one was “mistake”. She made some beautiful creations, as usual. At the museum we enjoyed seeing different
examples of classical wood blocking printing and a man making some wood
blocks. We were smitten with the quilted
examples that to the quilter’s eyes resembled those from Gee’s Bend. See below and this FLICKR link for more. The
museum was well put together and had a great view from the roof. All in all a great outing.
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