An Unfinished Shawl
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An Unfinished Shawl
A master craftsman died within months after a British organisation was awarded for the intricate design he displayed at an exhibition....
Kashmir’s Naqashi Printers
Even though modernity has overtaken the traditional arts associated with handicrafts, some specialities survived the onslaught. Mir Suneem reports the maze where a neglected...
Watch: A Kashmiri American Collects Rare Kashmir Art For Posterity
by Iqra Akhoon
SRNAGAR: Zulfikar Ali, who had gone to United States of America for studies, found a new occupation and settled there. He is...
Shawl Stratification
Over the centuries, the Shawl making in Kashmir has emerged as such an important exercise that the people associated with the diverse processes are...
Craft Marketing
Two women joined hands and created a digital platform that helps artisans get offshore buyers directly. In a few months of its operation, 192...
Kangri Commerce
Kashmir’s history’s oldest tool against harshest winters has not evolved as a symbol of culture alone but a roaring business as well. Evaluating the...
No Paper Tigers
With the traditional papier-mâché getting focused attention at the societal and official levels, Khalid Bashir Gura met two artisans who had given up their...
UNESCO Listing
With Srinagar finally joining UNESCO’s 50-city global creative network for ‘craft and folk art’, the real challenges for the policymakers and stakeholders is to...
Crafts In Crisis
Covid19 enforced immobility hit Kashmir handicrafts so hard that the exports fell to the lowest in recent years. Now, the authorities say they have...
Zaldagar 1865
Kashmir’s first labour unrest, more than 150 years ago, was the outcome of the accumulation of immense exploitation that Kashmir’s working class was subject...
Exceptional Carver
One of Srinagar’s oldest craftsmen, Ghulam Nabi Dar’s designs on the wood remain unmatched for their intricacy and detail, reports Khalid Bashir Gura
In one...
Kashmir’s Map Shawls
Shawls woven in Kashmir were fashion statements on Paris streets early nineteenth century. But it took a long time for the buyers to understand...
Dying Art Of Papiermachie
Dwindling economic utility of the art is forcing artisans in Kashmir villages to give up on it, reports Samreena Nazir
On a snowy afternoon of...
Crocheting Lives
It took her 16 years to encourage her husband to earn for the family. The failure has led her to separate and to further...
Pottery Is Alive
Contrary to public belief and researcher’s verdicts, the pottery in Kashmir is not dead, reports Bilal Bahadur
There were 22 families in Wakoora, a Ganderbal village...
