Krishnayan is an art store located in the centre of the city at 5 Asia House, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001. Krishnayan is created with an aim to revive traditional Indian arts and crafts by giving craftsmen a new lease of life in today's contemporary context. Our goal is to bring the craftsmen back into the mainstream of Indian life and raise their status from community artisans to national artists. This is the raison d'etre of Krishnayan which is painstakingly curated by Mrs. Krishna Lal, who has spent over fifty years in the field of decorative arts and textiles.Krishnayan's array of offering includes:• Kantha work from West Bengal.• Madhubani paintings from Bihar.• Zardozi work from Delhi.• Pottery from Khurja and Jaipur.• Traditional Combs from Nagina, UP• Brassware including lamps, etc.• Traditional Paintings all across India.• Textiles designed with Padshahnama and Chintz motifs ( Tree of Life. etc)• Cushion covers painted with flora and fauna motifs as depicted in Baburnama.• And more...

Mrs. Krishna Lal, Consultant, IGNCA (M. A (History), Aligarh University) served in the Decorative Arts and Textiles Department, National Museum, New Delhi for 34 years. She was awarded with a French Government scholarship to pursue a Diploma in Museography in France in 1971 -72. Under Cultural Exchange programmes, she had explored most of the museums of France and then U.S.S.R.Mrs. Lal participated and presented papers in several seminars and international conferences held in U.K, Mexico and Greece. In addition to coordination of several nations and international exhibitions, she was an active participant in the Festival of India Exhibition in U.K, France and the U.S.S.R during 1982-1988.Her literary /research work includes a catalogues on "Bidriware in the National Museum Collection, New Delhi" ( 1990) " Indian Decorative Arts" published in German"(1985) and Russian (1978) language, Phulkari: from the realm of women creativity (2013). Her ' PEACOCK in Indian Art Thought and Literature was published in 2006. She also co-authored two books titled " Tourism, Museums and Monuments in India" (1974) and Cultural Tourism in India (2003). She has also contributed a chapter on " Indian Decorative Arts" in Masterpieces of National Museum Collection,published by the National Museum 1985. Her book " Cosmetics and its impact on Indian Art" is in press.After retiring from National Museum in 1994, she joined the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, as an adviser for documentation and cataloguing of the art objects of the Cultural Archives of the Centre and worked there for eight years. She had also completed a research project assigned by Ministry of Culture, Government of India. After this assignment she devoted three and a half years in verifying the collection of handloom and handicrafts museum Delhi.