Tag: traditional crafts

  • Kalamkari Travels Between Worlds

    Kalamkari Travels Between Worlds

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    This article was originally published as part of the AAJA Voices program. It can be read here. In a bright Brooklyn apartment, young professionals gather around a large wooden table, learning to work with natural dyes and the bamboo pens traditionally used in making kalamkari, an ancient artform from rural Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India. Artisans…

  • Sri Lanka Traditional Masks

    Sri Lanka Traditional Masks

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    Abigail King writes about her trip to Sri Lanka where she learns how to carve traditional masks. In the process she also learns about the meanings behind them. We’re in Galle in southern Sri Lanka, a windswept port with old stone ramparts, and years of tradition. If you left the palm trees by the crashing…

  • Preserving Cultural Crafts

    Preserving Cultural Crafts

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    I’m so heartened by the stories of individuals, families and governments striving to preserve and revive traditional crafts all over the world. In the on-line publication YourStory, Saranya Chakrapani features Shahida Khanum’s efforts to revive the indigenous crafts of her ethnic tribal community of the Gujjars who live in a remote village in Kashmir. At…

  • Ancient Chinese Art Form Revived

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    People’s Daily Online highlights how the ancient artform of filigree inlaid metal art was revived and is being preserved by a family that has kept the intricate craft, one of the eight imperial handicrafts of Beijing, alive for three generations.