Topic

Makers

Profiles of artisans, workshops and the families behind the trade.

3 articles

A 12-micron fibre, hand-spun, hand-woven, hand-washed. Here is why a real Kashmir Pashmina outlasts every machine-made cashmere on the market.

A short field report from a single morning in Pampore, where the world's most concentrated saffron is hand-picked one flower at a time.

Kashmir papier-mâché is the oldest continuous lacquer art tradition in India. Three of the four neighbourhoods that practise it still exist — barely.