Super Girls + Women: Noor Jahan Art Print textile hear their stories and laugh

hear their stories and laugh at all the silly things

This bag is gusseted and made with heavy canvas

She feels the magic of the place that her family comes from through her Babi Ba’s colorful descriptions of India – from the warm smell of spices to the swish-swish sound of a rustling sari

This art print was inspired by neighborhood gardens full of summer wildflowers

There's a secret message in the upper right corner that reads "And then the flowers told me to listen"

Super Girls + Women: Noor Jahan Art Print textile hear their stories and laughArt print of one of my illustrations in the book Stories for South Asian Super Girls. This is the portrait of Noor Jahan. She was a mighty empress during the Mughal Empire. She boldly led the empire when her husband, Emperor Jahangir could not. I decided to depict her with a glow around her head (a nimbus) a nod to the way rulers of the period were depicted to show their divine right to rule. Depictions of Noor Jahan from this period do not include a