From the archive record
Gujarat has an array a rich variety of crafts. Here we see a Kutch woman working on her embroidery, another crafter operates the lathe with his feet, spinning the item he wants to lacquer, a middle aged man polishing his finished decorative item and a weaver at a hand-loom workshop. Thousands of artisans/weavers, who are inhabited in rural, urban and even remote area of Gujarat, are covered under its various schemes of training and designs development. Its embroidery, bead work, wood crafts, printed and woven clothes, pottery and tribal art are expression of the folklore and festivals. The exclusive range of these works of craftsmen and woven imbued with the social and cultural hue of the region from where they have sprung are original in nature and craftsmanship. Today far moved from the