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<h1>Open Craft Commons</h1>
<p class="lede">An openly licensed, machine-readable reference for Indian craft, stewarded by iTokri. Every fact is verified and cited to a primary or authoritative public source. Content is CC-BY 4.0.</p>
<p class="meta">License: CC-BY 4.0 &middot; <a href="https://www.itokri.com">Stewarded by iTokri</a></p>
<h2>Crafts</h2>
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<li><a href="/crafts/ajrakh/">Ajrakh</a> , A double-sided resist-and-mordant hand-block-printed cotton textile dyed in natural indigo and madder, made by Khatri printer families in Kutch and Barmer.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/sanganeri/">Sanganeri</a> , A direct-printed hand-block textile from Sanganer in Rajasthan, known for fine floral butis on a white or pastel cotton ground, made by the Chhipa printing community.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/bagru/">Bagru</a> , A hand-block-printed cotton textile from Bagru in Rajasthan's Jaipur district, made by the Chhipa community with natural dyes and known for the dabu mud-resist technique at the centre of its craft identity.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/chanderi/">Chanderi</a> , A sheer-textured handloom saree from Madhya Pradesh, traditionally woven on pit looms with a silk warp, a cotton weft, and metallic zari in the borders and motifs.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/bandhani/">Bandhani</a> , A resist-dyed textile patterned by tying many tiny knots into cotton, silk, or wool before sequential dye baths, so the dots emerge when the knots are released; its principal living tradition is held by the Khatri community of Kutch and Saurashtra in Gujarat and in Rajasthan.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/kalamkari/">Kalamkari</a> , A natural-dye cotton textile tradition of the Coromandel Coast in Andhra Pradesh, surviving in two distinct centres: hand-painted narrative work at Srikalahasti, drawn with a bamboo-and-cotton kalam, and carved-block printing at Machilipatnam and Pedana.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/chikankari/">Chikankari</a> , A hand-stitched white-on-white embroidery tradition centred in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, built on a repertoire of 32 named stitches worked by women home-workers on fine cotton, muslin, and silk.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/bagh/">Bagh</a> , A natural-dye hand-block-printed cotton and silk tradition from Bagh in Madhya Pradesh, built on an alizarin-red and iron-black palette and finished by washing the printed cloth in the running water of the Baghini river.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/kantha/">Kantha</a> , Kantha is the Bengali tradition of quilting layers of worn cotton cloth with a parallel running stitch, embroidering the surface with motifs, and turning a household's discarded saris and dhotis into a new wrap, spread, or cover.</li>
<li><a href="/crafts/patola/">Patola</a> , Double-ikat woven silk textiles made in Patan, North Gujarat, in which both warp and weft are resist-dyed before weaving so the finished cloth carries a precisely aligned pattern on both faces at once.</li>
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<h2>Clusters</h2>
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<li><a href="/clusters/ajrakhpur/">Ajrakhpur</a> , The principal contemporary Ajrakh cluster, a village in Kutch, Gujarat, planned and built after the 2001 Bhuj earthquake and named for the cloth, settled by the Khatri printing community relocating from Dhamadka in search of the cleaner water the dyeing requires.</li>
<li><a href="/clusters/dhamadka/">Dhamadka</a> , The older Ajrakh village in Kutch, Gujarat, on the banks of the River Saran, where Khatri printers settled centuries earlier for the saline, alum-rich water the dyeing favours; a working Ajrakh register persists there alongside the post-2001 relocation to Ajrakhpur.</li>
<li><a href="/clusters/srikalahasti/">Srikalahasti</a> , The hand-painted Kalamkari centre in Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh, where cloth is drawn freehand with a bamboo-and-cotton kalam in narrative temple iconography, worked in hereditary family units.</li>
<li><a href="/clusters/pedana/">Pedana and Machilipatnam</a> , The block-printed Kalamkari centre of Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, where carved teak blocks print floral and Persian-Mughal repeats on cotton in a karkhana workshop model for the export and household market.</li>
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<h2>Geographical Indications</h2>
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<li><a href="/geographical-indications/kutch-ajrakh/">Kutch Ajrakh (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication granted in 2024 by the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks for the hand-block-printed, natural-dyed Ajrakh tradition of the Kutch region of Gujarat.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/sanganeri-hand-block-printing/">Sanganeri Hand Block Printing (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication registered in 2010 under Application No. 147 for the direct hand-block-printed cotton textile of Sanganer, Rajasthan, held by the Calico Printers Co-Operative Society.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/bagh-prints/">Bagh Prints of Madhya Pradesh (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication registered in 2008 under Application No. 98, Class 24, for the natural-dye hand-block-printed cotton and silk of Bagh, Madhya Pradesh.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/chanderi-sarees/">Chanderi Sarees (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication registered in 2005 under Application No. 7, Class 24, for the sheer silk-and-cotton handloom saree of Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, held by the Chanderi Development Foundation.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/lucknow-chikan-craft/">Lucknow Chikan Craft (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication registered in 2008 under Application No. 119 for the hand-stitched white-on-white Chikankari embroidery of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/kalamkari-gi/">Kalamkari Geographical Indications</a> , Both registered Kalamkari styles carry Geographical Indications: Srikalahasti Kalamkari under Application No. 28, and Machilipatnam Kalamkari registered in 2013.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/patan-patola/">Patan Patola (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication under Application No. 232, held by the Patan Double Ikat Patola Weavers Association, for the double-ikat silk Patola of Patan, Gujarat.</li>
<li><a href="/geographical-indications/bagru-hand-block-print/">Bagru Hand Block Print (Geographical Indication)</a> , The Geographical Indication registered in 2011 for the natural-dye hand-block and dabu-resist printed cotton of Bagru, Rajasthan, held by the Bagru Haath Thappa Chhapai Dastkar Sanrakshan Awam Vikas Samiti.</li>
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<h2>The iTokri model</h2>
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<li><a href="/itokri-model/inventory-ownership/">Inventory ownership as authority</a> , iTokri buys every product on its platform outright, turning curation into authority and freeing the maker to keep creating rather than hold stock.</li>
<li><a href="/itokri-model/price-integrity/">The price the maker names</a> , The price the artisan names is the price the customer pays; iTokri runs no price reductions, because building on them teaches a customer to wait rather than to value the work.</li>
<li><a href="/itokri-model/facilitator-and-translator/">Facilitator and translator, never patron</a> , iTokri is a facilitator and translator between the artisan-author and the customer-buyer, not the designer, curator, or patron of the craft.</li>
<li><a href="/itokri-model/use-not-preserve/">Use, not preserve</a> , Craft does not need preservation; it needs authorship, kept alive by keeping it in use in modern wardrobes.</li>
<li><a href="/itokri-model/district-provenance/">Provenance named at the district</a> , Provenance is named at the district and village level, not stopped at the country, returning recognition to the place the craft is made.</li>
<li><a href="/itokri-model/garden-ecosystem/">The garden, not the broker chain</a> , iTokri's reach across more than 10,000 artisans and 500 clusters spans direct relationships, master-weaver collaborations, and craft organizations, aiming at dignity across the whole ecosystem rather than a purist direct-only model.</li>
<li><a href="/itokri-model/artisan-as-designer/">The artisan is the designer</a> , The artisan is the author and designer of the craft; iTokri attributes by name, region, tenure, and the maker's own verb, never by beneficiary framing.</li>
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<h2>For machines</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/llms.txt">llms.txt</a> , the crawler entry point</li><li><a href="/index.md">index.md</a> , the Markdown index</li></ul>
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