Beautiful skill and enterprise. Embroidery was what helped me recover my short-term memory, which had been harmed by burnout. My doctor told me to embroider. So I learned to embroider in 2018 at the age of 49.
Embroidery helps me after a stroke. Doing it in my hand or just looking at it, reading books about it , this program has been BLISS for me. Sometimes my brain is whizzing around, thinking, thinking , thinking…… I reach for my threads and my lovely needles and calm comes ….. my brain is soothed. I wish you good health.
I wish i could learn from these folks. I do embroidery aswell. Its one of my favorite artistic activities. Its a sacred practice for my people because its the way we tell information through our embroidery. When i make it to India i will stop, have a learn and exchange some information with the embroiderers. I wish that our world paid craftspeople more than the middle men.
The likelihood of a woman being allowed into their workshop to learn anything is very slim. No doubt that with this trade being a Muslim stronghold means that women will not be allowed together with me, and that they will not want to give trade secrets to woman.
I would have loved to hear what the embroiders themselves have to say. They are the main characters in this documentary, yet they are not interviewed at all.
Ha. I'm glad I'm not the only one... As I'm listening to this entire documentary and sometimes glancing up from sewing, I'm wondering what percentage of this guy's "spectacular life journey" is made up for his social circle and business associates!? I would be willing to bet the employees don't see it in the same light. They're probably paid "fairly" according to a millionaire's idea of how little they can pay but beat the competition by a couple cents more.
😢😢😢😢 of course this man is European colonial minded will not allow poor Indians to talk. He is doing business sure cheap labor what he wants Indians’ amazing work their eyes’ pearl and to take them to his country France the worst colonialism and racist in the world
Amazing Kraft and beautiful design. For a few years I sold saris and wedding outfits with embroidery for a friend in her shop in Berlin. And I bought silk from Kala Niketan in Pune with embroidery for myself. I am in love with these designs and colors, so it was a great pleasure for me to see this post. Big thank you and all the best to the designer❤❤❤
What’s up with the hate comments? Stop making this about race again. Max is giving these people jobs and even have bank and retirement accounts for the employees. If you listened closely, it’s a small group of people - it’s not a sweat shop! The shop is outside of the nasty city of Mumbai. Max’s passion for the art of embroidery and care for the workers are admirable. 👍 He’s teaching them art!
Come on the cost of living in that country, these men are doing well for there cast in life No one’s bitching that there are no women This is not the west
@@annwilliams6438 If you work in a McDonalds in USA, do you get a share of the profits and a well-paying job? No, you get jackshit, treated like crap, and no respect. So why are you all so righteously demanding this for India?
Eine unfassbar schöne Dokumentation. Man sieht ihm die Leidenschaft förmlich an. Ich wünschte der Film hätte länger gedauert. Ich bedanke mich für die ausführliche Dokumentation und Preisgabe dieser Kunst für die Öffentlichkeit. Liebe Grüße aus Österreich.
I have always loved Indian embroidery and their craftsmanship is something to appreciate, along with the fact they work with such fly away light fabrics. I would lose patience. Beautiful work. ❤❤❤
I remember when you could find beautiful fabrics, buttons, trims etc. in the US. Now, there's nothing. The fabric stores are closed and the material is cheap and ugly. The embroidery and trims are beautiful here. It reminds me of better times in the US.
I remember fabric stores too! I miss them so much. I think it was due to textile mills here in the U.S. shutting down and changing times. Now, sadly, about the only fabric you can find is for quilts. Or mail order and that can be very expensive.
my thoughts exactly 😢 i hope he isnt exploiting these mens' talent for high fashion designers. i hope the craftsmen are paid a high fashion wage! beautiful embroidery!!!!
Of course, it just goes to show that there is so much expertice in embroidery in India. The fashion industry makes artistic use of this, but we must not forget to mention the other tiny detail as well, which is the extremely low labor wages in India compared to the West. I am now watching this docu for four minutes, hopefully this Frenchman might speak about the labor wage.
Max Modesti does an excellent job bring out the best of what embroidery offers in India. Thank you for sharing such artistic talent and helping lift it to the world stage.
In today’s fast paced and technologically driven society it is wonderful to see true craftsmanship. The concentration and dedication to the art of embroidery makes it mesmerizing to watch. I just wish the picture could include women side by side with the men. Equality in this regard would make it perfect. Wonderful documentary! 🙏🏻
There is a couple of YT videos about the "Peacock Dress," made for the wife of the Viceroy of India, back in the era of "The British Raj". It is a wonderful story of the embroiderers of India.
Thank you. Beautiful video of so much creative talent. Of course they know the value of their artistic skills, it has lasted generations and will continue to do so. It has circulated the world over many, many years and will continue to do so.
The main difference about India is not that they prefer to sit on the floor. The cost of living in India is still low enough that a non-sadist can afford to hire employees to turn out a product that stingy rich people will pay for. Just because they pay big numbers for select items does not mean they dont bargain every chance they get. As an artist I speak from experience.Generous people do not get wealthy.
What does sitting on the floor have to do with anything? I am half Korean. We like to sit on the floor, it is very comfortable, more than sitting in a chair.
They charge the end users an arm and a leg but pay the true artists next to nothing. As long as this inequality is not addressed I could never watch this kind of documentary with a calm heart.
The whole video screams of exploitation of the craftspeople to make the traders in India and in the west get rich. This is utterly disgusting. The fact that the workshop are so large and do not even have air conditioning, just fans, shows that it is not workshops it is literally sweatshops, and you know those people NEVER get paid what they deserve. An embroiderer who has to work 10 hours a day will soon lose its sight and develop arthritis (i would know, my aunt is an embroiderer but she is Japanese so unlike her mother who became blind and couldn't move her fingers past the age of 80, she works only 4 hours a day not a minute more, in room that are warm in winter, cool in summer, using a magnifying glass and taking a 4 hours break after 2 hrs. She gets paid the equivalent of 10 000 pounds a month, and if anyone wants something cheaper she tells them to have the embroidery done by kids or elderly or poor people in India or China. She always said, that being a craftsperson is like being a surgeon, you do not go to a cheap surgeon, or a cheap hospital, if you want quality you should pay for it the right price. If you want to pay little, then you should expect mediocre work. But if you want to pay cheap and expect excellent quality like in India, then you are exploiting people". She will never be exploited. When a manufacturer or retailer commissions her a work, she is the one who says when it will be completed and how much it will cost, if the person asks for the job to be done faster or cheaper, she just walks out, and that person can NEVER contact her again. Those workers in India do not have the luxury to say that, so they are being exploited. That first french guy in the beginning of the video going to india to get cheap beautiful embroidery to sell for 1000 times what he paid for it is the very exemplification of exploitation. Thank you for exposing all that in that video. For me this is what this entire video is about. How people exploit others who do not have the luxury to say no. Those people didn't go to school and do not learn how to be independent, they are also never taught that the first thing in a negotiating process is to always start with NO, whatever the offer you receive.
I am an embroidery lover from India. Can I see some of those artistic works done by your aunt. Japanese embroidery is one of the finest work.Thank you for explaining well the true worth of embroidery.
@@sindhujaison2543 Thank you Sindhu. Please understand that i mean no disrespect toward India. India's embroidery is one of the finest in the world and Indian Craftspeople have influence the textile weaving, dyeing and embroidering techniques of Asia and the middle east and europe for thousands of years. We Japanese owe what we call Kasuri to India where you call it Ikat, and you developed embroidery long before Japan and China and the rest of Asia. So be certain that i only have the highest respect toward Indian textile craftsmanship.
@@sindhujaison2543 I do not have a video of her work. But here is a video of the exact same work she does with the same technique Just copy paste this in the search barre 刺繍職人│和光舎
Absolutely true...I have worked in an export house and the exploitation even for the retail in India itself is unusual. I don't understand how do they survive.
I am amazed at the skill and organised manufacturing process plus the skill of the beautiful workers. I come from Lancashire England where I worked as a weaver and spinner etc. We had no idea about where our work was used and the historical truth going on. The embroidery Is beautiful and It becomes a little obscene knowing the rich, privileged people who wear It.
Pls promote craftswomen. They are more dedicated, good at colors, bring a feminine touch to the craft. It comes naturally to them. This will also help them eliviate their status in society as they will feel more secure and independent. They are good at creating a social support system which bring others like them into their fold thereby enriching the social fabric of the community by large. Very fulfilling experience watching them grow and prosper and watching them making others grow along and prosper.
O come on, he didn't go to India "for their exceptional craftsmanship", he went to India cuz he can pay them basically slave wages. if he had this done in a first world country he would have to pay actual wages and the work would cost a fortune. U work in the fashion industry and know all about this and how this crap happening overseas is what is making it so we in the first world r losing work.
How is the blue fabric on the stretchers not attached to the fabric the embroidery is worked on? I see the finished piece being removed and can't figure it out. One seems to be resting on the other yet when pulled apart there is no interstitching, as the embroidered item is suspended, floating above the blue. My brain is missing something. How are they not stitching thru both layers of fabric?
It’s criminal that these very skilled people are not paid appropriately. May be they need to be unionized. Rich folks just use them I am an Indian and I have seen how poorly they are paid. When I am there I make sure they are compensated handsomely. Same story with the Calvin Klines of my home country 😔
All criticisms can be out aside atleast to a great degree .Here is the foundation for craft in Lucknow founded by Max including women as well. The photos shew a lovely airy place.
How much does i.e. Dior charge for such a dress? And how much do the workers get, who embroidered it? And Max? I don't understand, why this documentation does not raise this question! Seems, good old Max found a perfect way to exploit people for his personal gain.
Hindustan has produced great artists for a long time .The artists who helped to build Taj Mahal ,they were rewarded by their hands being cut off 😢During British time these great artists were rewarded by their looms broken so that they do not get employed .This protected and made British textile flourish 😢 The moguls only gave the textile artists jobs if they converted .(this explains most of the embroidery artists are now Muslims )😢 current threat to this ancient art is cheap Chinese’s machine made copies 😢 It is nice to see if this textile embroidery industry is revived and the artist are being paid fair wages .
An Italian man had to come and get all this great work acknowledge by government and it's own people and make an ongoing chain of support so it doesn't disappear forever
Beautiful art and hard-working artist. But are those shiny flat colorful discs made of plastic? It can be harmful to the oceans when these cloths are disposed of at the end of it's life.
So many judgements from people who have never been to India and have zero understanding or knowledge of life and work there. This man is giving his employees actual salaries, bank accounts, training, and spacious quiet clean workshops. He has opened a new workshop to let embroiderers move back to their home region. If you work in a McDonalds in USA, do you get the profits and a well-paying job? No, you get jackshit, treated like crap, and no respect. So why are you all so righteously demanding this for India?
it is the same story...those Indian men...work in silence in a room with FANS....no A/C. do theynlook like they are leading better? while these FABULOUSLY DECORATED clothes sell for at least THOUSANDS each. Do these men really benefit? they have jobs, true. but it seems they should thave a bigger piece of the pie!
If you work in a McDonalds in USA, do you get the profits and a well-paying job? No, you get jackshit, treated like crap, and no respect. So why are you all so righteously demanding this for India? Get off your pedestal.
Fair remuneration is reached when you would do that work for that pay in those conditions for a year... In this case artists and designer. Take this mughal hunding coat in the V&A museum, the designer may have been the embroiderer too, and the only reason these "artisans" are not "artists" is money and direct connections with the clients, because the client triggers your inspiration, what you can see for them and what would please them., like'the "creative embroiderer Lea Kad. th-cam.com/video/Eu6kYe5nc0g/w-d-xo.html
it is quite surprising that you should be mentioning the religion of the workers again and again then talking about multi-religious work environment of the workshops that the Frenchman has started. For your information there are many fields where people from various religions work together in India. He is not doing a uniqe thing here. The producer of this documentary is talking a bit like an Indian Politician highlighting the religion rather than the skill. People from Europe suffer from historical myopia : they don't want to get into the historical aspects of a culture instead interpret things as it suites them. The fact is that embroidery, weaving has been part of Indian culture for centuries, way before the Mughals came to India. They were patrons of art that already flourished in the land. Also most muslim workers are original habitants of the land they have not come from any foreign land though their religion certainly has therefore the feeling of coming from some far off land to India. Just get your facts clear before starting with this Muslim-Hindu narrative ( all of them are artists).
Embroidery of all kinds , any 'sewing' skills came to India with the invaders from Northwest . Consequently. , most of the artisans are muslims and the art and craft of embroidery is a family inherited trait . AND , they are hugely exploited .
Beautiful skill and enterprise. Embroidery was what helped me recover my short-term memory, which had been harmed by burnout. My doctor told me to embroider. So I learned to embroider in 2018 at the age of 49.
Embroidery helps me after a stroke. Doing it in my hand or just looking at it, reading books about it , this program has been BLISS for me. Sometimes my brain is whizzing around, thinking, thinking , thinking…… I reach for my threads and my lovely needles and calm comes ….. my brain is soothed. I wish you good health.
@ Thank you 🙏🏻! I’m glad to hear about your experience. Yes, embroidery is soothing and makes us be “present in the present”. Blessings.
Sounds like you have a wise doctor!
@@Roseamongthorns1 Indeed. I’m so thankful to him. 🙏🏻
Nice
Amazing beautiful work & a brilliant video , thank you
Thank you!
I wish i could learn from these folks. I do embroidery aswell. Its one of my favorite artistic activities. Its a sacred practice for my people because its the way we tell information through our embroidery. When i make it to India i will stop, have a learn and exchange some information with the embroiderers. I wish that our world paid craftspeople more than the middle men.
The likelihood of a woman being allowed into their workshop to learn anything is very slim. No doubt that with this trade being a Muslim stronghold means that women will not be allowed together with me, and that they will not want to give trade secrets to woman.
Tradition is keeping the flames of the past alive, not worshiping its ashes. WONDERFUL
-Gustav Mahler!
Beautifully spoken with enormous depth! ❤
Bang ON !!! Such a lovely thought. Soulful and warm
As an amateur embroiderer, this is nothing short of astonishing to watch and imagine.
I would have loved to hear what the embroiders themselves have to say. They are the main characters in this documentary, yet they are not interviewed at all.
Yes exactly...they won't because they know artisans will reveal the real truth.
Ha. I'm glad I'm not the only one... As I'm listening to this entire documentary and sometimes glancing up from sewing, I'm wondering what percentage of this guy's "spectacular life journey" is made up for his social circle and business associates!? I would be willing to bet the employees don't see it in the same light. They're probably paid "fairly" according to a millionaire's idea of how little they can pay but beat the competition by a couple cents more.
😢😢😢😢 of course this man is European colonial minded will not allow poor Indians to talk. He is doing business sure cheap labor what he wants Indians’ amazing work their eyes’ pearl and to take them to his country France the worst colonialism and racist in the world
Rich gets richer and the poor stays poor. Crazy world
@@semsimama2191 True ... unfortunately money attracts money
Amazing Kraft and beautiful design. For a few years I sold saris and wedding outfits with embroidery for a friend in her shop in Berlin. And I bought silk from Kala Niketan in Pune with embroidery for myself. I am in love with these designs and colors, so it was a great pleasure for me to see this post. Big thank you and all the best to the designer❤❤❤
What’s up with the hate comments? Stop making this about race again. Max is giving these people jobs and even have bank and retirement accounts for the employees. If you listened closely, it’s a small group of people - it’s not a sweat shop! The shop is outside of the nasty city of Mumbai. Max’s passion for the art of embroidery and care for the workers are admirable. 👍 He’s teaching them art!
Guaranteed they are still being paid a tiny fraction of what the final garment will be sold for….
Come on the cost of living in that country, these men are doing well for there cast in life
No one’s bitching that there are no women
This is not the west
@ You haven’t worked with many women from India have you? And institutional Islamic sexism is quite fine is it?
@@annwilliams6438 If you work in a McDonalds in USA, do you get a share of the profits and a well-paying job? No, you get jackshit, treated like crap, and no respect. So why are you all so righteously demanding this for India?
How’s evertyhing going?. bravo-amazing . farewell,WIDE~
Eine unfassbar schöne Dokumentation. Man sieht ihm die Leidenschaft förmlich an. Ich wünschte der Film hätte länger gedauert. Ich bedanke mich für die ausführliche Dokumentation und Preisgabe dieser Kunst für die Öffentlichkeit. Liebe Grüße aus Österreich.
I have always loved Indian embroidery and their craftsmanship is something to appreciate, along with the fact they work with such fly away light fabrics. I would lose patience. Beautiful work. ❤❤❤
I remember when you could find beautiful fabrics, buttons, trims etc. in the US. Now, there's nothing. The fabric stores are closed and the material is cheap and ugly. The embroidery and trims are beautiful here. It reminds me of better times in the US.
I remember fabric stores too! I miss them so much. I think it was due to textile mills here in the U.S. shutting down and changing times. Now, sadly, about the only fabric you can find is for quilts. Or mail order and that can be very expensive.
Beautiful in both craft and human betterment. Thanks.
I have done, embroidery, weaving and tambour. I find your workmanship outstanding. you are a master!!
Max doing a great job
Bringing India's embroidery to the world
I hope the embroiders r being renumarated according to their skills n labour
I doubt they are paid according to what their work is sold for.
looks like low-paid labor they show
my thoughts exactly 😢 i hope he isnt exploiting these mens' talent for high fashion designers. i hope the craftsmen are paid a high fashion wage! beautiful embroidery!!!!
@@avinas1214 You wish
Of course, it just goes to show that there is so much expertice in embroidery in India. The fashion industry makes artistic use of this, but we must not forget to mention the other tiny detail as well, which is the extremely low labor wages in India compared to the West. I am now watching this docu for four minutes, hopefully this Frenchman might speak about the labor wage.
Max Modesti does an excellent job bring out the best of what embroidery offers in India. Thank you for sharing such artistic talent and helping lift it to the world stage.
I just found this - and it was brilliant, so informative and I really enjoyed learning about something I knew nothing about. Many thanks.
In today’s fast paced and technologically driven society it is wonderful to see true craftsmanship. The concentration and dedication to the art of embroidery makes it mesmerizing to watch. I just wish the picture could include women side by side with the men. Equality in this regard would make it perfect.
Wonderful documentary! 🙏🏻
I totally agree with you ! Include the ladies !
There is a couple of YT videos about the "Peacock Dress," made for the wife of the Viceroy of India, back in the era of "The British Raj". It is a wonderful story of the embroiderers of India.
Beautiful video, thank you so much ❤
Beautiful embroidery ! 🦋 Respect to the embroiderers ! 💞⭐⭐⭐🌿
Thank you for a brilliant video
Thank you. Beautiful video of so much creative talent. Of course they know the value of their artistic skills, it has lasted generations and will continue to do so. It has circulated the world over many, many years and will continue to do so.
I appreciate this guy sharing this very special work. May be they will be able to earn a living comparable to others of same skills in Europe plus
The main difference about India is not that they prefer to sit on the floor. The cost of living in India is still low enough that a non-sadist can afford to hire employees to turn out a product that stingy rich people will pay for. Just because they pay big numbers for select items does not mean they dont bargain every chance they get. As an artist I speak from experience.Generous people do not get wealthy.
What does sitting on the floor have to do with anything?
I am half Korean. We like to sit on the floor, it is very comfortable, more than sitting in a chair.
Fabulous!! Both the logistical and creative processes are fascinating. Thank you, thank you for this presentation.
What a cool guy. Helping the workers to a better life.🎉
How much are they paid?
Peanuts
I'm so glad to have found this on my feed. I enjoyed every minute of it. So enlightening. Beautiful work.
Wonderful info. Thank you for helping them to advance 🙏
Fabulous Doc.Thank you,it’s so cool to see this visionary,Max a brilliant ,😊 embroiderer/Designer& entrepreneur!!!!♥️🇨🇦
Amazing craftsmanship
That was just beautiful! It is funny how he devolloped an Indian English accent too.
Thank you for bringing this hidden craft to the forefront. I learned so much.
They charge the end users an arm and a leg but pay the true artists next to nothing.
As long as this inequality is not addressed I could never watch this kind of documentary with a calm heart.
Pour une personne qui aime la broderie je suis émerveillé par votre travail, bonne continuation, vous me donné de l’espoir, merci
The whole video screams of exploitation of the craftspeople to make the traders in India and in the west get rich. This is utterly disgusting. The fact that the workshop are so large and do not even have air conditioning, just fans, shows that it is not workshops it is literally sweatshops, and you know those people NEVER get paid what they deserve. An embroiderer who has to work 10 hours a day will soon lose its sight and develop arthritis (i would know, my aunt is an embroiderer but she is Japanese so unlike her mother who became blind and couldn't move her fingers past the age of 80, she works only 4 hours a day not a minute more, in room that are warm in winter, cool in summer, using a magnifying glass and taking a 4 hours break after 2 hrs. She gets paid the equivalent of 10 000 pounds a month, and if anyone wants something cheaper she tells them to have the embroidery done by kids or elderly or poor people in India or China. She always said, that being a craftsperson is like being a surgeon, you do not go to a cheap surgeon, or a cheap hospital, if you want quality you should pay for it the right price. If you want to pay little, then you should expect mediocre work. But if you want to pay cheap and expect excellent quality like in India, then you are exploiting people". She will never be exploited. When a manufacturer or retailer commissions her a work, she is the one who says when it will be completed and how much it will cost, if the person asks for the job to be done faster or cheaper, she just walks out, and that person can NEVER contact her again. Those workers in India do not have the luxury to say that, so they are being exploited. That first french guy in the beginning of the video going to india to get cheap beautiful embroidery to sell for 1000 times what he paid for it is the very exemplification of exploitation. Thank you for exposing all that in that video. For me this is what this entire video is about. How people exploit others who do not have the luxury to say no. Those people didn't go to school and do not learn how to be independent, they are also never taught that the first thing in a negotiating process is to always start with NO, whatever the offer you receive.
I am an embroidery lover from India. Can I see some of those artistic works done by your aunt. Japanese embroidery is one of the finest work.Thank you for explaining well the true worth of embroidery.
@@sindhujaison2543 Thank you Sindhu. Please understand that i mean no disrespect toward India. India's embroidery is one of the finest in the world and Indian Craftspeople have influence the textile weaving, dyeing and embroidering techniques of Asia and the middle east and europe for thousands of years. We Japanese owe what we call Kasuri to India where you call it Ikat, and you developed embroidery long before Japan and China and the rest of Asia. So be certain that i only have the highest respect toward Indian textile craftsmanship.
@@sindhujaison2543 I do not have a video of her work. But here is a video of the exact same work she does with the same technique
Just copy paste this in the search barre
刺繍職人│和光舎
🥺true
Absolutely true...I have worked in an export house and the exploitation even for the retail in India itself is unusual. I don't understand how do they survive.
Thank you. I love India and respect allll the workers! ❤
I realize the sacrifice! Thank you for working and sharing❤️☀️❤️
It's really haute couture, all done by hand.
I am amazed at the skill and organised manufacturing process plus the skill of the beautiful workers. I come from Lancashire England where I worked as a weaver and spinner etc. We had no idea about where our work was used and the historical truth going on. The embroidery Is beautiful and It becomes a little obscene knowing the rich, privileged people who wear It.
Just love info of this sort. Kudos.
I was not able 'like' the video not for the lack of trying though. I really appreciate the content and learning about new things.
Pls promote craftswomen.
They are more dedicated, good at colors, bring a feminine touch to the craft. It comes naturally to them. This will also help them eliviate their status in society as they will feel more secure and independent. They are good at creating a social support system which bring others like them into their fold thereby enriching the social fabric of the community by large.
Very fulfilling experience watching them grow and prosper and watching them making others grow along and prosper.
May i know the salary?
Not much, I can assure you.
Me too is an amateur embroidery. Fascinating to see someone using it to the fullest. Would like to get in the group
this was wonderful!!!
This is a very interesting video.
I tottaly agree with the above comment. I so believe in a basic salary for all and add more based on demand and supply
Some thing new and impressive
Amazingly done 😍
O come on, he didn't go to India "for their exceptional craftsmanship", he went to India cuz he can pay them basically slave wages. if he had this done in a first world country he would have to pay actual wages and the work would cost a fortune. U work in the fashion industry and know all about this and how this crap happening overseas is what is making it so we in the first world r losing work.
How is the blue fabric on the stretchers not attached to the fabric the embroidery is worked on? I see the finished piece being removed and can't figure it out. One seems to be resting on the other yet when pulled apart there is no interstitching, as the embroidered item is suspended, floating above the blue. My brain is missing something. How are they not stitching thru both layers of fabric?
Incredibly beautiful. What is the name of the foundation in Uttar Pradesh? Is it up and running?
Thanks!!
So much talent ❤x
What is max full name 💕🙏
It’s criminal that these very skilled people are not paid appropriately. May be they need to be unionized. Rich folks just use them I am an Indian and I have seen how poorly they are paid. When I am there I make sure they are compensated handsomely. Same story with the Calvin Klines of my home country 😔
All criticisms can be out aside atleast to a great degree .Here is the foundation for craft in Lucknow founded by Max including women as well. The photos shew a lovely airy place.
🥀🥀MAGNIFICENT PEOPLE🥀🥀
I THANK YOU FROM MY HEART:
How much does i.e. Dior charge for such a dress? And how much do the workers get, who embroidered it? And Max? I don't understand, why this documentation does not raise this question! Seems, good old Max found a perfect way to exploit people for his personal gain.
Hindustan has produced great artists for a long time .The artists who helped to build Taj Mahal ,they were rewarded by their hands being cut off 😢During British time these great artists were rewarded by their looms broken so that they do not get employed .This protected and made British textile flourish 😢 The moguls only gave the textile artists jobs if they converted .(this explains most of the embroidery artists are now Muslims )😢 current threat to this ancient art is cheap Chinese’s machine made copies 😢
It is nice to see if this textile embroidery industry is revived and the artist are being paid fair wages .
An Italian man had to come and get all this great work acknowledge by government and it's own people and make an ongoing chain of support so it doesn't disappear forever
Am crying. Understanding the plight of these poor people and a humanist cum buisiness man helping to advance both 🙏
Never saw the finished products bad video!!
It would be good if the women could be supported to be entrepreneurs
Beautiful art and hard-working artist. But are those shiny flat colorful discs made of plastic? It can be harmful to the oceans when these cloths are disposed of at the end of it's life.
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So many judgements from people who have never been to India and have zero understanding or knowledge of life and work there. This man is giving his employees actual salaries, bank accounts, training, and spacious quiet clean workshops. He has opened a new workshop to let embroiderers move back to their home region. If you work in a McDonalds in USA, do you get the profits and a well-paying job? No, you get jackshit, treated like crap, and no respect. So why are you all so righteously demanding this for India?
it is the same story...those Indian men...work in silence in a room with FANS....no A/C. do theynlook like they are leading better? while these FABULOUSLY DECORATED clothes sell for at least THOUSANDS each. Do these men really benefit? they have jobs, true. but it seems they should thave a bigger piece of the pie!
And all that ended up as British India fashion house on Malaysia
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The way he speaks to his workers is arrogant! Please and thank you costs nothing!
AA guild, not a foundation.
If you work in a McDonalds in USA, do you get the profits and a well-paying job? No, you get jackshit, treated like crap, and no respect. So why are you all so righteously demanding this for India? Get off your pedestal.
Dreaming, so far behind, and said is the best?😮😂
Cultural extraction. Low paid for embroiderer artists.
Fair remuneration is reached when you would do that work for that pay in those conditions for a year... In this case artists and designer. Take this mughal hunding coat in the V&A museum, the designer may have been the embroiderer too, and the only reason these "artisans" are not "artists" is money and direct connections with the clients, because the client triggers your inspiration, what you can see for them and what would please them., like'the "creative embroiderer Lea Kad. th-cam.com/video/Eu6kYe5nc0g/w-d-xo.html
I hope they are paid properly for their work, not taken advantage of as cheap labour!!
Hahaha you wish.
They are paid according to the local market.
it is quite surprising that you should be mentioning the religion of the workers again and again then talking about multi-religious work environment of the workshops that the Frenchman has started. For your information there are many fields where people from various religions work together in India. He is not doing a uniqe thing here. The producer of this documentary is talking a bit like an Indian Politician highlighting the religion rather than the skill.
People from Europe suffer from historical myopia : they don't want to get into the historical aspects of a culture instead interpret things as it suites them. The fact is that embroidery, weaving has been part of Indian culture for centuries, way before the Mughals came to India. They were patrons of art that already flourished in the land. Also most muslim workers are original habitants of the land they have not come from any foreign land though their religion certainly has therefore the feeling of coming from some far off land to India. Just get your facts clear before starting with this Muslim-Hindu narrative ( all of them are artists).
Embroidery of all kinds , any 'sewing' skills came to India with the invaders from Northwest . Consequently. , most of the artisans are muslims and the art and craft of embroidery is a family inherited trait . AND , they are hugely exploited .
hahaha He is not the first embroidering in wood, lol
Max is running a sweatshop. He is simply exploiting. Screw him.
I hope they wash their hands before eating that's disgusting to share like that with people and yet I know it's the culture
Please can you elaborate ?
I realize the sacrifice! Thank you for working and sharing❤️☀️❤️