Lavishly illustrated postcard-sized paper labels pasted on mill-manufactured cloth reflected and even subverted ideas of ...

The textile mill label is an essential visual reminder of trade in British India. The labels, also referred to as “tickets” and “shipper’s tickets”, were pasted on bales of cotton cloth produced at ...

South Carolina has largely shed its textile label, remaking itself into a state known for automotive and aerospace manufacturing. But the Palmetto State still has upwards of 200 locations that the ...

Lovers of all things vintage are in for a treat with an exhibition of textile labels and old calendars that begins in the city today “These were things that would have been thrown away by now, but ...

There’s an uncanny resemblance between a work of art shown at Bengaluru’s Museum of Art & Photography last year and one at its current Ticket Tika Chaap: The Art of the Trademark in Indo-British ...

Tucked into the inside of every collar or seam is a quiet declaration: ‘Made in India.’ ‘100% Cotton.’ ‘Dry Clean Only.’ These stitched-in scripts graze the skin, but we rarely pause to consider them.

These "tickets" or "shipper's tickets", that would be attached on the front of bales of fabric during shipment, are now important historical artefacts. A collection of these rare textile mill labels ...

Textile labels were once used as industrial markers of trade between India and Britain. These "tickets" or "shipper's tickets", that would be attached on the front of bales of fabric during shipment, ...