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Shopping in Kashmir
Jammu & Kashmir is a paradise for shoppers, with some of the most beautiful and affordable handicrafts anywhere in India made and sold here. Scarcely more costly are the hand-carved wooden boxes and small statues, carved in Srinagar’s backstreet workshops. Of course, the tiny packets of dark red saffron, grown, picked and dried at Pampore. Brightly…
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Handicrafts and the Indian heritage
Handicrafts depict the skill and art used in creating artefacts by skilled craftsman, whether they use their expertise on cloth, wood, marble, or, any other materials. Even in this age, this talent is passed through generations who depend on it for their livelihood. Because of industrialisation, the raw materials and metals have become very expensive,…
