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Portrait of Suman Kumari, Chikankari artisan at Shwet Heritage, Lucknow

Suman Kumari

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Shwet Heritage SHG network, Lucknow

Suman Kumari started working as a teenager after her father passed away, so she could support her mother and younger brother through Chikankari.

Suman Kumari started working as a teenager after her father passed away, so she could support her mother and younger brother through Chikankari. Even after her marriage, she chose not to leave the craft, continuing to stitch from her new home. Every piece she completes carries both her responsibility towards her family and her long, unbroken relationship with this work.

Embroidered by Suman

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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.