Who is Abdul Majeed Zargar the last Mukh craftsman keeping alive hand-carved wooden shuttle used in Kashmir’s Pashmina?
For nearly five decades, 75-year-old Srinagar craftsman Abdul Majeed Zargar has made Mukh, wooden shuttles essential to weaving Pashmina. As factory-made alternatives become more common, he is among the valley’s last Mukh makers and…
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