UK India Dosti: Indian Folk Art Festival - Rabari Appliqué Embroidery

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Glasgow Women's Library have teamed up with the UK India Dosti Folk Art Festival to offer a host of incredible women artists from rural India a platform to share their talents!

About UK India Dosti: Indian Folk Art Festival - Rabari Appliqué Embroidery

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To celebrate South Asian heritage month and 75 years of India’s independence (Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’) we have teamed up with the UK India Dosti Folk Art Festival to offer a host of incredible women artists from rural India a platform to share their talents and pass on practical knowledge of different art forms.

Rubaris are nomadic herders who live scattered throughout Gujarat and Rajasthan, in highly adaptive communities. One of the most striking things about the Rabari people is their artistic embroidery, traditionally practices by women who live in the permanent villages that anchor the traveling herders. In this workshop we will learn from the ‘Guru’ women who practice this beautiful form of embroidery, watching practical demonstrations and being supported to create new textiles using Rabari techniques and designs.

UK India Dosti is a cultural exchange festival between the UK and India scheduled to be held from 18 July 2022 to 8 March 2023 inspired by the UK’s South Asian Heritage Month (SAHM), India’s ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’, and the incredible traditional women artists of India who have shown remarkable resilience in continuing the heritage tradition despite the devastating effects of Pandemic.

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