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Saturday, January 6, 2007

DateSaturday, January 27, 2007 at 05:53PM

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Mrs. Bangle makerArrived in Chennai in the wee hours of the morning and after a few hours sleep headed out to explore the city. In the afternoon, I went to DakshinaChitra, a crafts village, with its American founder. There are a dozen or so artisans set up in little booths, who are able to sell directly to the public. I bought bangles, kalamkari wall hangings, and grass read fans. A very sweet couple from Rajasthan make lac bangles. I had them 469369-649811-thumbnail.jpg
Mr. Bangle makercustom make some “large size” ones while I was there as well as bought some already made ones for myself. I then headed to the DakshinaChitra shop. Since DakshinaChitra sources its products from craft cooperatives in Tamil Nadu and neighboring states, this was the place for me. I started stockpiling items to buy, but had to stop when the shop was closing.

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