Know Your Artisan

In India millions of artisans still practice centuries old handcraft traditions that are transmitted from generation to generation, much knowledge remains because handcraft has been so closely related with the Indian freedom struggle and the fact that other meaningful employment is rarely available. Currently, because of lack of access to the market and other problems, about 15 or 20 percent of artisans drop out of the system every 10 years. If this trend continues, we will have no artisans by 2050.