Srinagar Jul 18 :- Maqbool Dar, a Kashmiri artisan in Bandipora district of North Kashmir, has made the national flag tricolor on a silk carpet. Maqbool believes that the national flag is the last hope of saving this sinking art and artisans. The purpose of Maqbool to make the national flag on the carpet is to attract the attention of state leaders, government officials etc. to the art as well as to the artisans.
Maqbool, a resident of Ashtengu village in Bandipora district, runs a carpet weaving unit. It employs more than 40 women. The carpet industry of the Kashmir Valley has also been badly affected due to the Corona epidemic.
Maqbool Dar, who has been weaving carpets for 30 years, said, I thought about this a year ago. It took three months to make. I want this carpet to be installed at the Red Fort in New Delhi. Everyone will see it and the name of Kashmir will be illuminated. Art will also get life. He said that the artisan of Kashmir is hungry and I took this step so that the government pays attention, because the tricolor would have been put on the table of every officer to whom I went to the department. I also thought that I should also do some work on it and make a small tricolor on the carpet.
About five lakh women are involved in the handicrafts industry in the Kashmir Valley. Women associated with the carpet industry say that the art will lose its existence if they do not get the support of the government. Their employment will also end. Shehzada Begum, who works as a carpet weaver, said there are around 30-40 girls in this unit. Maqbool showed us the right path. The problem before us is that we do not get a price.
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