After a gap of around 12 years, Dastkari Haat Samiti Craft Bazaar is once again in the State capital from February 12 to 21. As many as 60 karigars from almost all the States have put up their stalls at Gauhar Mahal.
The organisation claimed that the best handicraft from all over the country is present at the Dastkari Haat.
Dastkari Haat Samiti Craft Bazaar is the oldest institution in the country that is dealing in designer textiles. The biggest exhibition-cum-sale of the products is orgnaised at Dilli bazaar with 200 karigars and in Chennai and Pune with 100 karigars each. This institution is around 30 year old in the field.
The handicraft shopping festival commenced here at Gauhar Mahal in the presence of Chief General Manager of Handicraft Development Corporation Nagendra Mehta and Founder Dastkari Haat Samiti Jaya Jaitly.
For the last four decades, Jaitly has been working tirelessly with diverse craftspeople across the country to produce beautiful, economical and purposeful crafts. The special Dastkari Haat at the Gauhar Mahal will create an opportunity for the craft lovers of the Bhopal, to witness, an exciting and vibrant collection of arts, crafts, and textiles from all over India, like never before with contemporary variations sold directly by the makers.
New and exciting products developed out of Madhubani Art, Bead Jewellery, Kantha embroidery from West Bengal, Block Prints, embroidery and weaving from Rajasthan, Chanderi and Maheshwari from Mhadya Pradesh, Banarasi weaves, Ceramics and Pottery from Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, Mehendi Art on Papier Machie from Rajasthan, Silver Jewellery from Odisha are showcased in the fest.
One of the vendors Remant Kumar Mishra is an artist of Madhubani painting, while talking to The Pioneer’ said that he has been with Jaya Jaitly for a long time now and this is the first time has has come for a festival organised by her as Dastakari Haat. “It provides employment opportunity for people like us who depend on handicraft for a livelihood,” he added.