Being the change you want to see in the world
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onWeaving A Common Future- By Sumita Ghose
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onRangsutra’s experience of the past 16 years despite ups and downs, shows that handloom weaving can be a source of regular well paid employment and livelihood for rural Indiansin the 21st century. The creation of...
Making of a Social Business (By Sumita Ghose)
Posted by RangSutra Crafts on"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"The idea of rangSutra came to me while on a sabbatical in 2002. Writing a paper on the kind of organizations that were needed in...
"Hum bhi kaam shikhna chahte hai." : New tracing artisans at work (By Sriparna Ganguly)
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onSanju (age 27), Rubia (age 28), Maina (age 26) and Jaiambe (age 26) are our four new tracing artisans at the Rangsutra Ridmalsar centre in Bikaner. Early March this year, the four friends walked into...
'The Gang of 5' :The Five Sisters of Barmer (By Sriparna Ganguly)
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onThey could be known as 'The Gang of 5’: the five sisters of Barmer. Confident, hardworking, determined, energetic and enterprising. Meena, Nabhu, Moru, Havita and Suki are like any other millennials in India. They dream...
Initiating a Bamboo Cluster in Rakua GP in Jharkhand (By Sriparna Ganguly)
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onAs we drove out of our hotel in Ranchi towards Ramgarh, and then onward to Gola and Rakua Gram Panchayat, we could see large clusters of Bamboo growing on either side of NH320. Bamboo forests...
Development of our cluster in Rajasar, Rajasthan
Posted by Shrimayee Dutta onThe deserts of Rajasthan have been home to the nomadic pastoralist community that engages in sheep breeding, washing and spinning of wool from Chokla sheep. Traditionally, hundreds of nomadic families of the arid Bikaner region...
A Glimpse into our Weaving Center in Sanchor
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onOur weaving center in Sanchor, Rajasthan is approximately 135 km from the Barmer railway station. The center currently employs 15 men, and is managed by Swaruparam ji, a first-generation weaver who was forced to start...
Six Trendy Jackets Using Traditional Indian Crafts
Posted by RangSutra Crafts onWelcome to our curated collection of jackets that have been handmade by our talented artisans from across rural India, using an array of traditional forms of crafts with contemporary designs. Appliqué Natural Long JacketAn exquisitely...