craft that dwells in each house.

Documentaries are meant to create an impact and inform people about something which is not known to the masses , India has a lot such hidden stories which needs to be extracted from the core in order to bring it to the light. Every state here has so much to show and so much to learn from that there could be possibly hundreds of documentaries which could be created. The informative about the entire state of Gujarat brought up some aspects of it.   The particular documentary we saw was mainly based in the ‘Kutch’ region of Gujarat focusing on the rabari tribe.

Handicraft plays a very important role in that part of Gujarat as the daily job of a woman is to do embroidery for pass time and also as the tradition goes the women makes pieces of decoration and also clothes out of the embroidery done by them in order take it to their husbands house after marriage.  As it was shown in the documentary girls of nearly 3 or 4 years start sewing and learning how to embroider to keep up the tradition coming down since generations however now few women in the tribe have started to refrain from this tradition as they feel that their daughters should be given proper education also and not just learn how to embroider and sew. Looking into the art aspect of that place apart from embroidery we also have the ajrak done by a specific Muslim ethnic group such as the ahirs and the mutuvas. The craftsmen who make Ajrak are called Khatri. The entire process of using several blocks with each block by intricacy and delicacy is just magnificent. The blocks are made out of wood and are of two kinds of wood such as shisham and teak. In the ajrak style of printing the colour indigo and the color red play a very important role they mostly use the indigo plant as their source which adds to the cloth by giving it an essence of the natural dye. The authentic Ajrak is printed on both sides by a method known as resist printing.

Carpets also form an eminent part of textile community. The authentic hand woven carpets are highly intricate and beautiful in nature which adds glamour to which ever space they are put in. I guess there is a lot difference as to how people in the west look at things and how people in the east do. As because the way we relate to motifs to mythological characters and godly figures at the same time they would maybe look at it as the solar system or perceive and relate it to concept of heaven and hell. There were a lot of things which I found out through the presentation on carpet weaving about the different areas the carpets are made in and also how the choice of motifs is totally different in all areas and also the use of colour in each carpet.