Kinnaur - Craft Archive | Research on Indian Handicrafts & Handloom https://gaatha.org Indian Craft online Tue, 29 Mar 2022 12:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.11 https://gaatha.org/wp-content/uploads/gaatha-logo-63x63.png Kinnaur - Craft Archive | Research on Indian Handicrafts & Handloom https://gaatha.org 32 32 Kinnari Shawls~Kinnaur https://gaatha.org/Craft-of-India/research-kinnari-shawls/ https://gaatha.org/Craft-of-India/research-kinnari-shawls/#respond Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:22:32 +0000 http://143.110.249.195/?post_type=listing&p=6348 This is a world, secluded from civilization, with a handmade culture of it’s own. Kinnaur, in Himachal Pradesh on the Indo-Tibetan border still has households, weaving one of the finest and most time-consuming weaves in wool but absolutely cut off from the rest of the world because of a variety of reasons: the inaccessibility of […]

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]]> This is a world, secluded from civilization, with a handmade culture of it’s own. Kinnaur, in Himachal Pradesh on the Indo-Tibetan border still has households, weaving one of the finest and most time-consuming weaves in wool but absolutely cut off from the rest of the world because of a variety of reasons: the inaccessibility of the area, topography, climate but most of all, because of their lack of trust in modern civilization. Their technique of weaving was stolen from them over a century ago and has been commercialized vastly. They refuse to sell their shawls. They refuse to commercialize their heritage.

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