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Jat Leather Wallet

Jat Leather Wallet

€68.00 Regular Price
€34.00Sale Price
Leather wallet crafted by leather and embroidery artisans from the Kutch region in Gujarat, India. 
Traditionally a collaborative outcome of the Maldhari nomads’ tanning expertise and the Meghwal community’s stitching and embroidering skills (the Garasia Jats in this particular item). 
 
Ethnic styles express lifestyle. They are practiced by individuals whose heritage is rooted in community rather than land, and considered cultural property.

  • CRAFT TECHNIQUE: Leather Work (in Kutch, Gujarat) + Kutch Embroidery (Jat)

     

    IN KUTCH (Gujarat, India) Leather Work was earlier on a partnership between the Maldharis (nomadic pastoralist) experts in tanning, and the Dalit Meghwals (leather, stitching and embroidery craftsmen) migrants from Rajasthan.

     

    LEATHER WORK was traditionally used to make harnesses for camels and horses, musical instruments, storage containers and footwear, once the local leather was very good, durable and even resistant to water. In our days, Kutch Leather Work is a means of business and livelihood for many villages in the region.

     

    JAT EMBROIDERY is the technique applied in this wallet, unique to Garasia Jats: a group of Islamic pastoralists. The origins of these people as of their embroidery remain a mystery. It is believed that they may have migrated to Kutch from north and west of the subcontinent. Minute and precise, Jat work uses an array of geometric patterns in counted work based on the cross-stitch, often studded with mirrors.

     

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