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Indian and Islamic Craft Traditions

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Shamshad Begum begins weaving a grass chapri

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Tags: Artisans, Tools

Chapri with terra cotta weights on weaving frame

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Maulana Farooq Wasfi who in his youth made the transparent sheets from animal membrane and described the process

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Cut paper art

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Tags: Paper Creations

Tool for cutting paper

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Calligraphy on highly polished translucent paper

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Paper poorly beaten shows rough fibers

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Traditional papier-mache

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Cut papier-mache

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Papermaker begins to remove chapri from the wooden kansi

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Tags: Sheetmaking

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