“This craft has passed down from my ancestors to my father and through him to me”. Kashmir's weavers fear the extinction of a 500-year-old carpet code that made Kashmiri carpets unique in the world.
Two decades ago, the Hyder colony in northern Srinagar was abuzz with pattern singing, a melodious chanting of a 500-year-old carpet code. The weavers rhymed in a hypnotic chorus, changing their tone while wrapping the threads on wooden looms. Ending the verse meant cutting the end of each thread with a hook knife, which created a gentle thud.
“This craft has passed down from my ancestors to my father and through him to me,” he told TRT World. Since carpet making is a long, tedious task, Kashmiri weavers feel inspired to work behind the looms by listening to local Kashmiri music on old cassette players. Mohammad is paid a daily wage of $2.7 . Although being an underpaid artisan has pushed him to desperate margins, his commitment to his craft has never wavered.
Inside the emporium, the scene is vibrant, in total contrast with what's left of the Hyder Colony. As you enter the lobby, you walk through hundreds of stacked up carpets and flanking the corridor. At the end of the corridor, a group of weavers sang Sufiyaan - a devotional Islamic music indigenous to Kashmir — as they worked behind a cluster of large looms.
“Take a good picture, nobody has taken any decent picture of mine, I want to show it to my wife,” said Nabi while speaking to TRT World. Rafiq Ahmad Shah, 73, started working as an artisan when he was a teenager. But his talent and craft promoted him to become the manager of the old company.
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