Documenting India's living craft traditions — the weavers, block printers, potters, and artisans whose work has endured for centuries because it is genuinely irreplaceable.
India's informal economy — its artisans, its kirana stores, its weavers — is not a legacy to modernise away. It is load-bearing infrastructure for 1.4 billion people.
This section documents that infrastructure: the people behind it, the craft traditions sustaining it, and the design thinking embedded in things that have lasted centuries.
Essays, artisan profiles, and field notes from the intersection of craft and commerce.
If you make things — textiles, pottery, block prints, jewellery, anything — I'd like to document your work. Not to romanticise it. To record it accurately, and share it with people who will understand its value.
Write to me with your craft, your location, and your story. I'll respond to every message.
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