Traditional Craft Quotes

Other musicians are basically personalities who want to make a name for themselves. All I do is sing old songs in the best way I can. What else is there to know? If you were a blacksmith, what would people need to know about you other than whether you can make a good horseshoe?

When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household.

Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

I have a kind of old-fashioned, artisan approach.

Weave sex is a little awkward.

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye.

The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time.

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

Being the son of a handloom weaver, I have knowledge of cotton and some other material.

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

Unlike sitting at a computer screen, printing is very direct and hands-on.

I am very interested in the culture of paper.

I give thanks for the fact that I can get this stick with a bit of steel nib on the end, dip it in some black carbon stuff, and draw on paper. Now, people did it the same way 2,000 years ago. And there's something lovely about that play, and making mud pies and a mess. That's a lovely privilege.

When you are knitting socks and sweaters and scarves, you aren't just knitting. You are assigning a value to human effort. You are holding back time. You are preserving the simple unchanging act of handwork.

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.