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 worries the craft may not survive him.
Who is Abdul Majeed Zargar the last Mukh craftsman keeping alive hand-carved wooden shuttle used in Kashmir’s Pashmina?
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