cover image: In Karadaga, jali making hangs by a thread

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In Karadaga, jali making hangs by a thread

25 Sep 2023

It takes over 300 feet of cotton thread and 60 hours of knitting to make a traditional jali, a sling bag used by Dhangar shepherds. The art of handmaking this symmetrical bag now rests with only a few pastoralists like Siddu Gavade in Karnataka

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Sanket Jain,PARI Team,Binaifer Bharucha

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