From the Publisher

Kashmir is known for its arts and crafts. But there is no single book so far which deals overall and totally with both known and lesser-known crafts of Jammu & Kashmir State. This book portrays a comprehensive study providing wealth of information and visual documentation on the beautiful part of India comprising Jammu, Kashmir valley and Ladakh. A state with rich craft and cultural heritage deserves to be better known in its crafts context of people and culture.

As a close and living relationship ties land to people and people to craft and culture, the book opens with brief description of this relationship.

Since traditional skills co-exist and change in the course of changing conditions, the book covers some of the more important as well as lesser known crafts in their historical background, present and potential for future.

Development being a constant process, the book also reviews the actual craft situation, its scope, design, craft training, the domestic marketing and exports of crafts, concluding on the most important factor- the craftsmen and their welfare.

The book is invaluable in many ways. Over 100 pages of excellent photographs and typical design motifs capture vitality of Jammu & Kashmir crafts. General readers, planners and administrators as well as traders and exporters will find highly useful the details the book provides with the personal touch of author's rich experience over the years.

Author Description

D.N. Saraf (born April, 1918) hails from Jammu and Kashmir. He did his M.A. in Economics and took a special course in Marketing at the Harvard Business School, U.S.A. He has been associated with such prestigious bodies as the India Crafts Council, the American Marketing Association and the British Institute of Management.

Mr. Saraf started his professional career with the development of crafts in Jammu and Kashmir and held several positions in the State - General Manager of the Government Central Market for Handicrafts (1940) to the Director of Industries & Commerce (1954-56).

From his home state, Mr. Saraf moved to the Central Government holding various positions in the handicraft field from 1956 to 1976 - Director, Handicraft; General Manager, Handicrafts and Handloom Export Corporation of India; Vice-Chairman, Central Cottage Industries Emporium; Memer-Secretary, All India Handicraft Board and lately Development Commissioner for Handicrafts, Government of India.

Mr. Saraf has been intimately associated with the development of handicrafts for the last 45 years. Widely travelled and the author of several reports and papers, he has been involved with a number of projects in Jammu and Kashmir, India Government as well as some other countries having worked on several U.N. assignments. Mr. Saraf's last book "Indian Handicrafts - their potential and development 1982" has been highly acclaimed as containing standard reference material.

Mr. Saraf is still actively associated with the state of Jammu and Kashmir, being on the Board of Directors of the two state corporations dealing with handicrafts and handlooms. There can be no better authority on the subject of arts and crafts of Jammu and Kashmir with which this book deals profusely.

CONTENTS

	Preface	5
	Introduction	8
Section One:	Land-People-Culture	13
Section Two:	Crafts-Skills-Usages	51
	TEXTILES	52
	Handweaves, shawls, Embroidery, Handprinted textiles, Garment making, Hoem furnishings, Kniting, Nara-Paranda making
	FLOOR COVERINGS	89
	Carpets, Numdahs Chain-stitched rugs, Gabbas, Othe floor coverings
	WOOD-WORK	105
	Pinjira (Lattice work) Khatamband, wood carving, Lathe-cum-lacquer work, Chickri woodcraft
	PAPIER MACHE	124
	History of art, Processes, Painting, Designs, Development, Ladakh masks
	METAL-WORK	132
	Statues, Weapons, Utensils, Enamelling, Jammu metal-work, Ladakh metal-work, Turquoise-ware
	SILVERWARE	150
	Glorious past, Jammu, Ladhkh, Kashmir
	JEWELLERY	152
	Tradition and influences, Ornaments, Lapidary, Costume jewelery, Dogra jewellery, Ladakh jewellery
	BASKETRY AND MAT WEAVING	164
	Bamboo work, Wicker-willow work, Kangri, Waggoo, Straw work, Palm leaf work
	LEATHER AND FURS	177
	Tanning and curing, Fur products, Leather goods
	CLAY AND CERAMICS	180
	Historic finds, Unglazed earthenware, Glazed Dalgate pottery, Jammu pottery, Ladakh clay products
	PAINTINGS	185
	Kashmir painting tradition, Dogra style, Basohli school, Wall paintings, Folk paintings, Ladakh tankhas
	STONE CRAFT	197
	Sculpture, Architecture, Kashmir's current stone work, Jammu tradition, Ladakh statues and stone carvings
Section Three:	Organization and Development	204
	State support, Production, Training, Design development and research, Marketing, Craftsmen themselves
	Annexures	250
I.	Some Typical Design Motifs
II.	Stall-holders, Government Central Market, Srinagar
III.	Tourism: Present Position and Prospects
IV.	Master Craftsmen-Recipients of Awards
	Glossary	283
	Select Bibliography	285
	Picture Credits	288
	Index	289

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