Peonies on the Pearl River

Tinaz Nooshian presented a panorama of Parsi creative skills highlighting their role in the field of textiles down the ages
Farrokh Jijina

"It was almost as if various pivots in the journey of the Zoroastrians from refugees to pioneering merchants were represented in some way in my personal history,” said Tinaz Nooshian, editor-in-chief of mid-day. She was speaking to Parsiana after a nearly two-hour talk titled "Parsi Artistry Salon” amid the backdrop of furniture designer and manufacturer, and lover of beautiful artefacts Sam Maneckshaw’s atelier, ZJM Exports in Lower Parel on August 31, 2024. The fascinated audience oohed and aahed every time an unusual gara or toran or the complexity of a particular stitch was displayed from Maneckshaw’s seemingly bottomless hoard of......



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