Stepping into the courtyard of Erxat Ibrayim’s walnut wood processing workshop in Bageqi town, a group of Uygur women sit at a long table polishing freshly carved walnut wood bowls that give off a ...

Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar City, is counted among the most creative cities in the world, and the artisans of the valley have been working day and night to keep its art and craft ...

Join our Whatsapp channel Once home to Kashmiri wood carvers, the trend for such wood art is declining in the city. Kashmiri wood art was loved by Rajas and Maharajas, and later on, by the British.

Butternut (Juglans cinera) is a tree that is more valuable for its sweet oily tasting nuts than for its lumber. In fact, the genus name “juglans” means “nut of Jupiter.” The nuts are oval shaped ...

A man works in a Walnut wood carving factory in Jammu, the winter capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir, Dec. 11, 2020 (Str/Xinhua) A man works in a Walnut wood carving factory in Jammu, the winter ...

Two prominent crafts, on display at the ‘Dastkari Mela’ reflect the shifting dynamics of the country’s ever evolving craft scenario. While the walnut craft of Kashmir, brought to the state by Badshah ...