Monday 14 August 2017

Plaiting ropes of rice straw



Anandanna plaiting a rope with rice straw. This is the rope that is used to string auspicious herbs and hang on the doorway, or at the entry to the village.

Each is an art and a skill. I with all my degrees, have found it hard to master these which they do so casually. These are the environmentally valid skills - not what I learnt in my engineering. I knew it then, and I know it now.

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