jewelry project - the people

Sasha
Sasha is a not-for-profit marketing organization for a network of over 150 producer groups involving about 7000 artisans and marginal producers - 80% of them women.
Sasha deals with a wide cross-section of handcrafted products, gourmet spices & teas and body care products. Since it’s inception in 1978, sasha has worked towards developing craft communities so that their skills and creativity find expression, recognition and fulfillment.
There is a strong emphasis on design and sasha products combine traditional skills and material
perfectly with contemporary living in India as well as globally.
www.sashaworld.com

The designer
naga nandini is a product designer, trained at the national institute of design, Ahmedabad, India (1983 - 1987). She has been associated with sasha from 1990 onwards, and in fact started with a workshop for beaten metal craftspeople, in Dhenkenal, Orissa, some of whom attended this workshop too. She has worked with leather, dhokra, garments and now works with new media.

Anwesha
Anwesha is a group working with tribal craftspersons all over Orissa. They have over the last 20 years worked to revitalise and revive marginalised tribal craft and art - notably dhokra or lost wax casting. They have worked with a group of jewelry craftsmen whose craft was dying due to dwindling markets in their area.
Anwesha hosted two workshops in Bhubaneswar where all the craftspeople came and stayed and
worked together.
anwesha2k@rediffmail.com

Click here to read a pdf version of the project.