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TEXTILE SHOW – 13th & 14th September, 2019 (35th Edition) The Crafts Council of India’s bi-annual “Textile Show” unfolds rare collections each a product of stunning design drama, aesthetics and swirling colours. Each sari and made up on display is a ‘designer-artisan-weaver’ collaboration worked through classic, pristine, tweaked and innovative weaves, textures and motifs, embroideries […]

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    KAMALA AWARDS 2020 The Crafts Council  of  India (CCI)  requests  nominations to its Kamala Awards 2020.The awards conferred annually were instituted in the year 2000 in memory of our Patron Founder Smt. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay to recognize and honour outstanding merit in the field of traditional Indian handcrafts. The specific categories under which the Kamala Awards are given are: 1) Kamala Award for ‘Excellence […]

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    CRAFTEPRENEUR an exhibition of contemporary craft What is Craftepreneur? ‘Craftepreneur’ is not just a mint-new addition to word collectors dictionary, it represents the use by entrepreneurs of the amazingly diverse language and techniques of Indian crafts, wholly or in part, to fashion and create products for contemporary lifestyles and needs. Craftepreneur is a word coined by […]

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     National Meet 2020 ‘CSR: Building new partnerships for craft development’   Through the first two decades of the new millennium, lessons have been many for artisans and for those who serve them. CCI’s National Meet 2020 will evaluate what it has learnt and how best to transmit and apply those lessons to the urgent needs […]

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    “Crafts Bazaar 2020”, organised by The Crafts Council of India, celebrates the exploding colours, buzz and magic of diverse Indian crafts handcrafted by artisans from across India. Ancient craft skills from folk art to pottery, dhokraware, leather puppetry, grass mats to a world of handloom textiles, and much more offering an exhilarating shopping and browsing […]

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      TNSDC and CCI launch Skilling Programme for the Women Mat Weavers of Pattamadai, Tirunelveli.  The Government of Tamilnadu and The Crafts Council of India have joined forces to impart training to the Women Mat Weavers of Pattamadai at Tirunelveli. The programme is being designed by the Tamilnadu Skill Development Centre (TNSDC) under SANKALP (Skills Acquisition […]

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        About the Award WCC Award Of Excellence for Handicrafts 2021 The WCC “Award of Excellence for Handicrafts” aims to encourage designer-makers, artisans and craft makers to produce and create new forms of handicrafts using traditional, heritage and/or contemporary craft resources and practices to ensure the continuity, sustainability and innovation of craft systems. It is WCC’s […]

          IMPORTANT NOTICE The WCC Award of Excellence 2020 is being postponed to 2021. Due to all the travel restrictions during the Pandemic this extreme decision is being taken after much deliberation. The new Timeline for 2021 will be communicated later.

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            Handloom Day Initiative  The Crafts Council of India salutes the great Indian weaver, with a special initiative to pull them out of the morass of poverty and destitution caused by the Covid pandemic. Yet, despite unsold stocks piling up due to closure of markets and looms falling silent, the weavers’ brilliant talent to create and […]