Block Printing Community

Rajasthan has a long and distinguished tradition of hand printing with finely curved wooden blocks. The cloth is laid out flat on a table of bench and a freshly dipped block is hand pressed on to the fabric to form a continuous, interlocking pattern.

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Bone and Wood Community

Horn & Bone craft of Sambhal, Uttar Pradesh is known for their richness in creativity and luster. The artisans create different artistic items out of horn & bone and these are considered to be the conveyors of rich cultural heritage of Uttar Pradesh.

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Glass Beads Community

Purdil Nagar a small town of Hathras district of Uttar Pradesh established his international identity in producing glass beads . The kiln used for producing glass beads is a dome shaped one. It usually has 15 small windows like outlets around it. 15 craftsmen sit around the kiln in front of each window. A thin iron rod is used to raise the melted glass inside the kiln.

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Jewellery Community   for more info click here

Leather Community

Jootis or Mojdis (shoes decorated with beautiful embroidery) are made in Jaipur and Jodhpur. Embroidery known as kashida is done on the jootis: in Jaipur it is first done on velvet which is then made to cover the shoes while in Jodhpur it is applied directly to the leather. This embroidery is mainly done by the woman, who also does a bit of fancy stitching or appliqué work to give a designer look.

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Kutch Embroidery

Kutch, in Gujarat is famous for its embroidery either in Mushroo silk or cotton. There are many types of Embroidery done in Kutch. Some of these are Abhla (Mirror Work), Ahir, Bakhiya, Bavariyo, Ganth Tako, Paako, Neran and Sakri. Most of these were traditionally stitched by village women, for themselves and their families, to create festivity, honor deities, or generate wealth

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Quilt Community

Rajasthani quilts are popular among people worldwide. The most famous place of producing quilt is Jaipur. The specialty of Jaipuri quilts or Jaipur rajais is they are light and soft as feathers and more importantly they are of high quality. They are available in many varieties like cotton block printed, velvet printed, etc.

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Soof Embroidery Community

Soof, painstaking embroidery counted on the warp and weft of the cloth in a surface satin stitch. Motifs, based on the triangle, called a "soof", are never drawn. Each artisan imagines her design, and then counts it outworking from the back in reverse

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Weaving Community

Bhagalpur is known as SILK CITY as it is famous world wide for its silk production. The silk industry in this city is 200 of years old and a whole clan exist that has been producing silk for generations. Bhagalpur is well known for its sericulture, manufacture of silk yarn and weaving them into lovely products.

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Wood & Lac Community

Etikopakka, a small village in Andhra Pradesh famous for wooden lacquered items. Dyes were made from a tree called divi-divi (Caesalpinia coriaria). Lacquer pellets are heated slowly in an open oven while the colours and titanium dioxide in powder form are applied to the fluid in small quantity at regular intervals. The thick fluid of the lacquer is stretched and twisted on the oven for proper distribution of the colour with lacquer. This process of applying colours over the oven is continued till the lacquer turns into required shade

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