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Women craft exhibition extended for a week

Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: The Hawwa Women Craft Co-operatives has extended its craft exhibition for another week.

The exhibition, featuring traditional hand embroidered dresses and other household items, which started on December 27, was scheduled for a week. But people could not visit the exhibition due to the assassination of Benazir Bhutto followed by riots in the country. The exhibition management has extended the exhibition for another week so that maximum number of people could benefit from it. The exhibition offers dresses with delicate and exquisite work that maintains traditional look while carrying a trendy approach with exotic colour combinations and innovative cuts.

The traditional embroidery including famous cross stitch, ‘taar kashi,’ Swati stitch, ‘phulkari’ and Kashmiri stitch along with crochet and cutwork has helped retain the traditional touch of various products on display in the exhibition.

Whether it is the unstitched suit of block-print or the hand-embroidered suit, each piece depicts true elegance while giving a unique stylish look.

The traditional work of ‘rilly’ on ‘kurtis’ and trousers are attracting most of the customers due to their contemporary cuts and customary embellishments.

The exhibition also includes the work by women artisans who migrated from Indian Kashmir and are living in camps near the border.

Talking to Daily Times, Kishwar Naheed, owner of Hawwa Women Craft Cooperatives, said the entire nation had suffered irreversible loss due to the murder of Benazir Bhutto and that they had decided to close their outlet for three days to mourn her death along with the rest of the nation.

“Benazir Bhutto was a woman with a great intellect who helped project the soft image of Pakistan abroad,” she said. Naheed said their organisation was striving to empower women belonging to backward areas of the country.

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