i was in a ranthambore village last month where ujwala and devika started the second center for "dastkar ranthambore". the village name is kundera. ujwala and devika had already done the ground work on deciding on that village for the center, have found a good house to run the center, and other things which would have needed to be taken care of. what i witnessed was the fun part - the first day of women coming to a brand new center, learning to make their first product. the product they learnt was charming little hair clips made out of waste "chindi" from the main center ("kendra" at kutalpura).
here are a few pictures from that first day. enjoy. :)
colorful threads and other little things which will be used to make thread based patterns on the clips.
devika showing the technique the very first time to them. i will try to find out the names of these characters of my stories from devika.
teaching them to make cute dragonflies using thick colorful twisted threads.
another beautiful young woman watches.
she now wants to try it herself with ujwala's help
she is slowly getting the hang of it
another woman coming close to see
by now she feels confident to show how to do, to her shy friend. and she is happy to see it taking shape. and we are happy too.
more women get interested. they think its doable after all.
devika teaching more women, different patterns
by now she is cruising happy. :)
those who were watching till now want to learn too. ujwala helping.
at the end of session devika gave all of them some threads and trinklets to make clip patterns with their own ideas. next day they came up with pretty neat designs. she also would let them choose their own color combinations to see if they come up with something interesting, which most of the times they would.
outside, some men decided to put their time to good use.
while the first day saw about 6 or so women, the second day was more full.
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