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The Craft Journal

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Meet the hands behind the gifts: the makers and their studios, the techniques they've kept alive, India's GI crafts and the awards that honour them.


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Makers & Studios

Forty years of patsan: Meera Purwar's courtyard studio

How a 74-year-old artisan from Etawah turned raw jute into a living — and taught hundreds of women to do the same.

4 min read · 18 October 2026 · Meera Patsan Handicrafts