Written by Parth Khatau |Updated: April 4, 2019 5:25:42 pm
Old Craft, New Ways: Traditional crafts get a contemporary facelift
The exhibition at Grand Hyatt has in attendance 70 artisans from six states — Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh — coming together to design more than 3,000 products, including hand-crafted beads, papier-mache jewellery, ikat saris and leather puppets.
We use this to catch fish during the monsoon months of August and September,” says Amit Turi, a handicraft artist from Gumla village in Jharkhand. The 31-year-old was pointing towards kunni, a fish trap made from bamboo that his family has been weaving for decades, apart from producing tokris to store grains and bamboo furniture. “We also work on our farms for a large part of the year but everyone in our village is involved in making handicrafts,” adds Turi.
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