From Bolpur, a jhaapi for all of India

Sonamani was born and brought up in Bolpur, in Birbhum, right beside Santiniketan. She grew up surrounded by karigors: painted terracotta, cowrie and thread jewellery, kantha, and the handloom sarees Bengal wears to pujo and weddings. For her, these weren’t “crafts”. They were everyday life.

She also saw how far this work usually travels: to the local haat, a mela once a year, and not much further. Beautiful pieces, made by skilled hands, that most of India never gets to see.

Jhaapi is her way of changing that.