‘It is an art of joining together geometrical shaped wood to construct intricate ceiling’ In Eid Gah downtown area of summer Srinagar, Imran Ahmed Sofi is carving intricate designs on the small hexagonal shaped wood. Next to him, sits his worker who with every stroke smoothen the wood so that designs could easily be carved. The room is full of wood pieces, Khatamband designs and the dust lingers in the air. Imran has been associated with the craft of Khatamband from sixteen years. Watching his father and grandfather doing the…
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