The Department of Handicraft organized a spectacular exhibition at the Sher-e-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC) Srinagar to coincide with the highly anticipated G-20 summit being hosted in the Valley for the first time.
This declining demand is not only robbing the livelihood of thousands of traders and craftsmen back home but poses a threat to the preservation of Kashmir’s rich cultural heritage.
Once popular Numayesh Gah, renamed later as Kashmir Haat, which was built in Srinagar nearly six decades ago to provide a marketing platform to the people associated with handicrafts including artisans today lies in shambles with most of the shopkeepers ruing lack of customer footfall.
An artisan’s anguish apart, the current situation is only creating existential crisis for Kashmir’s golden hands amid the growing dominance of machines in the handicraft sector.
As Kashmiri shawls are loved across the globe, Delhi over the years has emerged as a prime location for the shawl tourism. In the eighth part of Kashmir in Capital series, Kashmir Observer talks to a scion of Shaw Brothers in Defense Colony-New Delhi, who has seized upon the emerging markets of Kashmiri Handicrafts since the 1990s.
Kashmiri carpets, which ruled the world at one point in time, faced decline with the emergence of new techniques, deteriorating quality, and political turmoil inside their state of origins. However, a man from Lalbazar, Srinagar, is fighting hard to bring the glory back to its name. In this seventh part of the Kashmir In Capital series, Kashmir Observer talks to Umer Hameed and narrates his story of popularizing the Kashmiri carpets in New Delhi.
In this sixth part of Kashmir In Capital series, Kashmir Observer talks to Syed Sajad — the Kashmiri art merchant ‘promoting’ and propagating papier mache in Delhi.
The five-day 3rd Virtual Edition of 41st India Carpet Expo has received an overwhelming response from around 292 overseas buyers from 51 countries and 81 Buying Representatives from across the world.
In this fifth part of the ‘Kashmir in Capital’ series, Kashmir Observer talks to Basharat Saleem Sheikh, owner of Kashmir Specialities in New Delhi, to find out his story of success from scratches.
In this fourth part of the ‘Kashmir in Capital’ series, Kashmir Observer profiles Abdul Majeed Chaku, a resident of Srinagar, who brought woodwork—an essential part of Kashmiri handicraft—to Delhi.
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