ARTISAN-DESIGNER COLLABORATIONS IN INDIA’S TEXTILE REVIVAL BOOM: Three contemporary saris from The Fabric of India Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London By Preeti Mehta (@preetimehta) Much has been written about the revival of traditional...
Does Khazana Sell Art or Crafts? By: Carolyn Friedhoff If we’re being delicate, the distinction between a work of art and a craft is an issue of semantics. In truer terms, the distinction is xenophobic drivel. The term, “art,” is often used to describe creative work...
A sage bundle Khazana’s View on Alternative Approaches to Healing By: Carolyn Friedhoff Khazana sells incense, books on holistic healing, and art from cultures that support the medical efficacy of practices like acupuncture. Customers often visit to purchase...
Winter days at Khazana are meditative. They are darker and quieter than sunny spring and fall days, when the windows open with the shop doors in the morning. They are colder than summer days, when the air conditioning blasts on high. Despite its stillness, the shop...
Unless you’ve been hibernating in a windowless winter bunker, or vacationing south of the Mason Dixon line, you know that spring is upon the Midwest. Minnesotans, rejoice! Now is the time to congratulate ourselves for having survived the tundra temperatures, and to...
Khazana recently began selling yak milk soap. When I first saw the packages of soap among our displays, I guessed they would fly, snatched up by hipster skincare enthusiasts. Renowned by those on the cutting edge of the beauty industry for its high fat content (great...
