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{{Short description|Indian textile conservator (1928–2021)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Use Indian English|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox person
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| name = Suraiya Hasan Bose
| othername = Suraiya Appa
| birth_name =
| birth_date = 1928
| birth_place = [[Etawah]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2021|9|3|1928|1|4}}
| death_place = [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]
| spouse = {{Marriage|Aurobindo Bose|1955}}
| relatives = {{plain list|
* [[Abid Hasan Safrani]] (uncle) }}
| education = Textile Design
| alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]]
| occupation = Textile conservator, [[textile design]]er
| years_active = 1950s–2021
| parents =
| children =
| website =
}}

'''Suraiya Hasan Bose''' (1928–2021) was an Indian [[textile conservator]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Akbar |first=Syed |date=13 January 2023 |title=Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose-Abid Hasan Safrani kin meet in Hyderabad, turn nostalgic |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/netaji-subhash-chandra-bose-abid-hasan-kin-meet-in-hyderabad-turn-nostalgic/articleshow/96952097.cms |accessdate=4 April 2023 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref> [[Textile design|designer]], and manufacturer, who worked to preserve traditional Indian textile art and techniques. She worked with the Indian Cottage Industries Emporium and the Indian Handloom and Handicrafts Export Corporation before establishing her own textile manufacturing unit to produce traditional Indian textiles. Her designs have been exhibited at the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]].

== Biography ==
Suraiya Hasan was born in 1928 in [[Etawah]], [[Uttar Pradesh]], and raised in [[Hyderabad]], [[Telangana]]. Her father, Badrul Hasan, established a bookstore and a handicraft manufacturing unit in [[Hyderabad]]. His handicraft unit focused on manufacturing traditional Indian ''[[Bidriware|bidri]]'' (metalwork) objects. She studied textile design at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Thatipalli |first=Mallik |title=The story of textiles in independent India is closely linked to the life of one Hyderabadi woman |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/920274/the-story-of-textiles-in-independent-india-is-closely-linked-to-the-life-of-one-hyderabadi-woman |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=[[Scroll.in]] |language=en-US}}</ref> Her uncle was the Indian freedom fighter, [[Abid Hasan Safrani]]. She later married Aurobindo Bose, the nephew of Indian freedom fighter [[Subhas Chandra Bose|Subhash Chandra Bose]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Akbar |first=Syed |date=4 September 2021 |title=Hyderabad: Renowned textile revivalist Suraiya Hasan Bose dies at 93 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/renowned-textile-revivalist-suraiya-hasan-dies-at-93/articleshow/85911292.cms |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=[[The Times of India]] |language=en}}</ref> Her family were significant participants in the [[Swadeshi movement|Swadeshi]] movement, a nationalist movement that focused on producing and using native Indian textiles over imported British cotton during colonial rule in India.<ref name=":1" /> She died on 3 September 2021, at the age of 93.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=4 September 2021 |title=Suraiya Hasan Bose, heritage fabrics reviver, dead |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/suraiya-hasan-bose-heritage-fabrics-reviver-dead/articleshow/85916101.cms |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=[[The Times of India]] |language=en}}</ref>

== Career ==
After studying textiles at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]], Hasan Bose joined the Indian Cottage Industries Emporium, a governmental organization dedicated to producing and manufacturing traditional Indian handicrafts. Along with [[Pupul Jayakar|Pupul Jaykar]], from the 1950s she managed the Handloom and Handicraft Export Corporation, a public sector undertaking of the Government of India in Delhi, and directed their export unit.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Singh |first=Radhika |date=13 September 2021 |title=The story of Suraiya Hasan Bose (1928 – 2021) |url=https://www.vogue.in/fashion-insider/content/the-story-of-suraiya-hasan-bose-1928-2021 |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=[[Vogue India]] |language=en-IN}}</ref> During her tenure in Delhi, she collaborated with Indian handloom artists and art conservators such as [[Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay]], [[Martand Singh (textile conservator)|Martand Singh]] and Lakshmi Jain to revive traditional Indian handicrafts.<ref name=":0" />

In the 1970s, Hasan Bose moved back to Hyderabad along with her uncle, freedom fighter [[Abid Hasan Safrani]]. She established a textile manufacturing unit on land provided by Safrani. Hasan Bose collaborated with Indian artists to revive two traditional textile forms that nearly ceased to exist. These included ''himru'' weave, which derives from Persian textiles and is a complicated [[brocade]] weave embroidered with silk, created on custom eight-pedal looms, as well as ''mushroo'', a double-layered cotton and silk weave.<ref name=":0" /> Bose hired artisans, catalogued traditional and historical designs, and manufactured both, ''himru'' and ''mashru'' textiles, as well as other traditional textiles and techniques used in the creation of saris and fabrics, such as [[paithani]], [[Telia Rumal|telia rumal]], [[ikat]], [[jamawar]], and hand-painted [[kalamkari]].<ref name=":1" /> Her unit is currently the only manufacturer of ''himru'' textile in India.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Nadadhur |first=Srivathsan |date=2019-06-16 |title=Nifty in 90s |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/sunday-herald/sunday-herald-art-culture/nifty-in-90s-740499.html |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=[[Deccan Herald]] |language=en}}</ref>

In addition to manufacturing textiles, Bose built an archive of traditional motifs for textile patterns in India, using these to create new designs and reconstructing heritage ''jaalas'' or graphs used to set looms for weaving patterns.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Prabhala |first=Lakshmi |date=16 December 2013 |title=The Age of Significance |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/lifestyle/report-the-age-of-significance-1935477 |access-date=2021-12-03 |website=[[Daily News and Analysis|DNA India]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Sridharan |first=Suvasini |date=2019-05-04 |title=Picking up lost threads with Suraiya Hasan Bose |url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/picking-up-lost-threads-with-suraiya-hasan-bose/article27023691.ece |access-date=2021-12-03 |work=[[The Hindu]] |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Her original designs were exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2015, as part of a special exhibit on the fabrics of India.<ref name=":0" /> Bose's designs were supplied chiefly to Indian designers, as well as to [[Fabindia]], but also exported Indian textiles.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nanisetti |first=Serish |date=2021-09-03 |title=Handloom revivalist Suraiya Hasan passes away |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/suraiya-hasan-bose-dies-at-the-age-of-93/article36280963.ece |access-date=2021-12-03 |work=[[The Hindu]] |language=en-IN |issn=0971-751X}}</ref> Bose also established a training unit, in order to teach handloom, weaving, and textile art to widows who did not have other options for employment, as well as a school to provide free education to the families of weavers and handloom artists.<ref>{{Cite web|title=An attempt to take handlooms from the weavers' looms to wardrobes - Times of India|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/events/hyderabad/an-attempt-to-take-handlooms-from-the-weavers-looms-to-wardrobes/articleshow/57595547.cms|access-date=2021-12-03|website=The Times of India|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Suraiya Hassan Bose|url=https://www.borderandfall.com/suraiya-hassan-bose/|access-date=2021-12-03|website=Border&Fall|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2019, Bose was the subject of a book that recorded her contributions to textile conservation in India.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Jaffer|first=Askari|date=2019-03-26|title=Penning the legacy of Suraiya Hasan|url=https://www.thehansindia.com/telangana/penning-the-legacy-of-suraiya-hasan-515346|access-date=2021-12-03|website=www.thehansindia.com|language=en}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Fabindia]]

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[[Category:People from Etawah]]
[[Category:People from Hyderabad, India]]
[[Category:Alumni of the University of Cambridge]]
[[Category:20th-century women textile artists]]
[[Category:21st-century women textile artists]]
[[Category:Artists from Telangana]]

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