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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Rahul Karmakar

Manipur maps craft zones for stronger focus on art forms

MEETAC chairman Thongam Biswajit Singh at an exhibition of kauna water fibre craft.

Longpi, a village in Manipur’s Ukhrul district has lent its name to black earthenware crafted by the Tangkhul community without using a potter’s wheel. The GI-tagged and usually diaphanous Manipuri half sari called ‘moirang phee’ is similarly named after Moirang village from where it originated.

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