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Portrait of Shilpi, Chikankari artisan at Shwet Heritage, Lucknow

Shilpi

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Shwet Heritage SHG network, Lucknow

Shilpi is a young college-going girl from Lucknow who fits her Chikankari work between classes and studies, often stitching late into the evening.

Shilpi is a young college-going girl from Lucknow who fits her Chikankari work between classes and studies, often stitching late into the evening. She grew up watching her grandmother embroidery, and now proudly continues this ancestral craft in her own name. When you choose her piece, you support both her education and the legacy she is trying to carry forward.

Embroidered by Shilpi

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A lucknow based artisan named Babita doing the hand embroidered chikankari

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₹300 comes off a basket of ₹2,000, and ₹500 off ₹5,000. Each piece is embroidered by hand in Lucknow, and this is what we can take off without asking the artisan to take less.