Heritage Means Little Until the Women Who Make It Are Named

Heritage Means Little Until the Women Who Make It Are Named
NAMED HANDS For most of its history the craft travelled without its makers' names attached, a silence the collective treats as a condition of the market rather than an accident. Dwaraka

For generations, the women who hand-paint Kalamkari cloth in southern Andhra Pradesh sold their labour without their names attached to it. Anita Reddy, a social worker who founded the artisan collective DWARAKA, set out to change that by placing control of both the making and the pricing with the women themselves, from the first outline to the final price.