Khadi Kaleidoscope

Today's image is of these beautiful scarves that my sister brought back from a recent visit to India. She bought them from a Khadi shop in Delhi which is run as a collective and where makers in different parts of the country sell their wares in many variations of this cloth.
Khadi, derived from Khaddar, is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth, which is made from cotton but may also include silk or wool, whose origin as a cultural symbol can be tracked back to the Swadeshi (meaning self-sufficient) movement led by Mahatma Ghandi during the Indian independence struggle.
The first piece of handwoven cloth was manufactured in the Sabarmati Ashram during 1917-18 and the coarseness of the cloth led Ghandi to call it Khadi. The term is used throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. It's a versatile fabric, which comes in a kaleidoscope of patterns and colours, that remains cool in summer and warm in winter.