Flagging (Steve)

I'm writing this while waiting for Lokesh to arrive at Arts reverie with the first prototype flag/banner. We left the image files with the digital fabric printers a few days ago, and have sourced fabrics to match, in bright fuchsia, purple and gold - the colours of the AIAF - from the Khadi Emporium.

Lokesh has been stitching the sample banner together overnight. We have also made visits to a couple of 'decorators' (which is the term used here for the people who organise and install events - weddings, festivals, exhibitions and the like) and are waiting for costings from them for the hanging and installation of the banners on Ellis Bridge.

Hand painting gold details onto the first print-out

Lokesh and Devi Singh holding up the printed banner

Here we are discussing (at great length) the technical options for hanging the banners with the first decorator and his team of advisors.

This is the advertising sign of the second decorator, altogether a much bigger operation.

Lokesh has arrived, and we are now able to have a look at the full size prototype, here seen hanging in the chowk (inner courtyard) at Arts Reverie. After much scratching of heads, the consensus is that there is still some work to be done fine-tuning the colours (particularly beefing up the black linear motif) and layering another wood-block pattern or detail into the background colour.