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India:Bihar sets trend in ‘risk less’ jewellery |
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2004-12-20
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Worried at someone taking a swipe at your mangalsutra or gold chain?
Dont worry as women of Bihar have shown that its time to forget about gold and silver. Instead, they have taken to wearing ethnic handmade jewellery made from colourful cotton yarn, in a big way.
Where there is no risk of some vagabond picking or snatching it in broad daylight, it is something new to wear says Arti, who frequently uses colourful pieces of cloth.
Activist lawyer Shruti Singh, the originator of risk less jewellery took a leaf from the news story she read of a woman being attacked and her gold chain robbed in a busy marketplace.
"It was then that I though of making jewellery without risk," she says.
Working with a team of about 40 women in a village near Patna, Singh’s team crafts necklaces, earrings and bracelets from strands of colourful thread.
Devotion, patience, creativity and a lot more, goes in the efforts to create such pieces that provide earning opportunities like never before, and empowers women to operate from their homes.
Meanwhile, Singh has ambitious plans to patent the process and hold jewellery exhibitions in New Delhi and Mumbai. |
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