Textile designer is bringing back Mughal patternsBy Laurence Thomann / AFP, AMBER, IndiaTextiles designer Brigitte Singh lovingly lays out a piece of cloth embossed with a red poppy plant she said was probably designed for Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal, four centuries ago. A worker uses a hand block printing technique on a cotton fabric at the workshop of textile designer Brigitte Singh in Amber, India, on June 2. Photo: AFP“I was the first to give a renaissance to this kind of Mughal design,” Singh said in her traditional printing workshop in Rajasthan. Textile designer Brigitte Singh, right, watches as a worker uses a hand block printing technique on a cotton fabric at her workshop in Amber, India, on June 2. A worker carves a design on wood to make a block used in hand block printing at the workshop of textile designer Brigitte Singh in Amber, India, on June 2.
