The village of Ludiya erupts in color amid the monotonous
earth tones of the Kutch region
“In scattered hamlets, weavers, embroiderers, textile painters, tie-dyers,
bead workers, potters, carvers, cobblers and bell-makers work as they have for
centuries, often taking weeks, even months to finish a single flawless piece,”
Claire Spiegel wrote in The International Herald Tribune of the craftsmen of Kutch, in the
northwestern state of Gujarat.
“It’s a dying art, almost extinct,” Sumar Daud Khatri from Nirona village
told Ms. Spiegel about the 400-year-old tradition of elaborate freehand fabric
painting called rogan art his family has practiced for seven generations. Source:NYTIMES
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