Description
About the Artisan: Tanti Crafts, from a small village of West Bengal’s Purba Barddhaman District, are a Jamdani handloom fabric and saree manufacturer. They have more than 130 weavers who follow through the process of hand spinning the yarn on a charkha, weaving the fabric and collaborating with a long chain of handloom fabric manufacturers. They have also proudly displayed their handloom process to the 2019 Economic Nobel Laureate Mr. Abhijeet Vinayak Bhattacharya.
About the Craft: In West Bengal, woven fabrics are famous for their very fine count, soft texture and intricate jacquard or Jamdani patterns. Jamdani is a fine fabric crafted by the supplementary weft technique of weaving. The Jamdani motifs were traditionally inspired by nature and the characteristic feature of this craft was that motifs were always translated into geometric outlines or shapes.