How Women Can Reclaim Kashmir's Oldest Craft
File photo of Women Artisans
By Kulsuma Bano
When I began my postgraduate research on women in pashmina work in Baramulla, I imagined I was studying a traditional art form.
I did not expect to walk into a world where women's hands sustain an industry that forgets their names.
ADVERTISEMENTEvery household I visited had the same sound in the background: the soft, steady whirr of a spinning wheel. It was almost musical.
But behind that sound lay a silence about ownership, pay, and recognition.
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