craft

Mumbai-based Haresh Mehta’s Paper Shaper, a corrugated cardboard manufacturing firm, is helping people do so by offering an alternate sustainable solution to wooden, metal and plastic furniture.

Using mediums like movies, plays, sports, music, art, and humour, Picture Wala organises workshops in slum areas and opens the window to creativity for children in such areas.

Industrialisation and rising consumer demand have severely affected a lot of traditional art forms and handicraft industries. Anokhi Museum in Rajasthan is trying to preserve such a dying handicraft and art form – hand printing.

Trace the rich and fascinating history of Indian handicrafts across states and borders.

There is hours of hard work and patience behind that beautiful handcrafted bed sheet that you just could not take your eyes off. Two design students are taking us on a journey to give us a glimpse of the lives of local artisans through this beautiful video. We bet you will never bargain with craftsmen after watching this.