Re-Engineering Pottery
As the modern Kashmir elevated its kitchen-status to imported ceramics, copper and glassware, hundreds of potters halted their wheels and jumped to other jobs...
Weaver Dreams
Down south, a village has not abandoned handlooms because the power-looms work fast and better, but the weavers say they cannot change the destiny...
Crocheting An Idea
A professional web designer was so passionate about reviving crocheting that she gave up her job and made a successful venture using the internet...
Shawl Sheen Lost?
After the insiders at the state-run Handloom Development Corporation allegedly stole half a dozen prized shawls with classic designs – revived after huge efforts...
Tral’s Gufkrals’
On the foothills of Tral is a maze of caves that is an established archaeological site offering details about the early settlements of mankind...
1865: Kashmir Weavers’ Agitation
By all accounts, world’s first organised labour agitation took place in Kashmir on April 29, 1865, almost 21 years before the Haymarket Affair in...
The Ocean Thirst
The concrete jungle of Srinagar may be bustling with activity as it expands far and wide. But Zamir Ahmad reports a painful crisis that...
Paper Life
Orphaned at 11, a young boy in city outskirts is using winter to make paper objects after he picked up the Japanese art on...
Master Confessions
A master wood carver who says he carved the UN logo in the 1970s, still adorning the wall of the General Assembly is desperate...
Wicker Worries
As the new GST regime, brought handicrafts to the lowest five percent slab, the small, export-oriented sector is facing a crippling crisis, reports Ishtiyak...
The Silken Knot
Vested interest, negative policy interventions, market shifts and nature intervened in the unmaking of the world’s biggest silk factory in Kashmir. As cocoon production...
Sozni Daughters
Mechanization of handicrafts apart, hundreds of youngsters, mostly girls, in Kashmir’s periphery are using the art as a decisive tool to help their families...
Weaving Wonders
Two friends are determined to revive the once famous art of crochet or Koereshi, by using social media. Heena Muzzafar met the duo to...
Saving Namda
An 18-year-old girl’s invention helped save the centuries old art of Namda making. A sports and science fiction buff, she already has her kitty...
Pashmina Portal
Disturbed by the plight of artisan a young boy is out to change the system. Ubeer Naqushbandi reports the legacy of a business family...
