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Danka

The ‘danka’ is a small square plate, varied in size, but not bigger than 1.5 cm. Though originally it was made of pure gold, now silver-plated with gold dankas are used.

NIFT professor Vandana Bhandari tries to revive a dying Rajastani craft.

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Weaving History

Gargi Gupta of the Business Standard writes about the loss of our traditional textile skills and about the 125 year old company that is doing it’s best to restore that tradition.

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