A modest interest in traditional block-printing techniques led Noorjehan Bilgrami to years of learning and evolving an aesthetic language of her own. Working with local craftsmen in Karachi, she became aware of the socio-economic system; how ‘progress’ can delete generations of traditional skills and impoverish families of crafts people. She set about reviving the technique of block printing and indigo dyeing among the artisans, along with structuring the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture with a group of friends. Her passion for indigo took her to research cultivation, processing and dyeing, which she studies under Professor Hiroko Shindo in Japan. Bilgrami has exhibited worldwide.