Search Results for: Badges woven not embroidered
weaving is a way of life in assam. almost every household in the village has a prized possession of a loom. cotton, muga, paat (silk) and endi are common fabrics widely used for weaving. images or caricatures of animals, human figures, creepers, flowers, birds, cross borders etc. are favoured motifs embroidered
tribe collect gold from the birds of the rivers flowing down the himalayas. the jewellers known as sonari make exquisite doog-doogi, bana, jon-biri, dhol-biri type lockets; thuriya, loka-paro and keru earrings; gaam-kharu bracelets and gal-pata necklaces. rich with cane and bamboo forests, assam has not...
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