Stop here and spend a little time and a very little money to see how hand block printing on cloth is done. The anthropology lesson is worth the price of admission and the gift shop has some first class examples of the craft for sale and modest prices.

So many old buildings in India are as ruins. This place has been completely re-built and is now the museum of Anokhi which present us hand-skills and knowledge in Hand printing ...

We loved this museum. If you are interested in textiles and block printing this is a fantastic array of samples and history on display. We particularly enjoyed watching a skilled craftsman demonstrating how the blocks are carved and another printing a piece of cloth with multiple blocks and colours, building up an ornate deisgn before our eyes. The building itself... More

The location of this museum is excellent and it is in the old haveli which is renovated very decently and made there museum where one can have an idea of very famous block printing of jaipur and bagru print, there you can see old textiles and fabric with block printing as well as you can see how this block printing... More

So glad we made the time to check this place out! Got to see up close the process of making the blocks for printing and then watch another artist perform the hand printing onto textiles - so neat! The gift shop had wonderful and cheap items for purchase - a great place for high-quality and meaningful souvenirs.

After seeing this place in a few movies it is amazing to be there in person.They used to let one go inside but since some one sliped and broke there ankle they put up gates.

It was good to see how wooden blocks are carved...it is very difficult art. Sometimes it takes 6 month to prepare one block. And if you want to prepare the block with brass then add another 6 months!!!! Unfortunately in today machine age it is difficult to preserver this expansive art.

I studied Textiles here in India and found this small museum informative, well laid out, clear in its wording, interesting and with an amazing selection of garments to support the text. Visited a couple of time. Check days open, from memory their closed Mondays. Well worth a trip if you are interested in the dying art of Block Printing!

Date of Visit: 26th Mar 2013 Fees: 30 INR (adult entry), 50 INR (camera) + points: (1) Very fascinating to learn about hand / block printing, something that I never expected. The descriptions were very thorough and informative and the fonts were large so that you could take a picture of the samples and the description. (2) They actually have... More