Rustic wool

India’s rich tradition in wool is fading from memory. For centuries pastoral communities sheared wool from sheep and sold it to spinners, creating a seamless cottage industry of dyers and weavers. Today, India spends `2,000 crore annually importing wool while local wool goes waste.  No effort has been made to modernize local wool.

Desi Oon, an initiative by rangSutra and the Centre for Pastoralism, is trying to reverse this decline. It brings together India’s best crafts organizations — Khamir in Gujarat, Avani from Uttarakhand, Aana-Jaana in Himachal Pradesh and others to revive the entire supply chain of traditional wool.

You can buy beautiful warm jackets, durries, coats,

blankets from Desi Oon.

Contact: Website: www.rangsutra.com Phone: 011 2649 4145 Email: contact@rangsutra.com