Craft Matters explores the ways in which ‘ traditional Indian craft producers’ engage with the efforts of governmental and non governmental agencies to preserve, promote and develop their crafts. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among the Labbai Muslim mat weavers of Pattamadai town in South India, this anthropological study explores the ways in which the famous Pattu Pai or high-quality silk-like mats of Pattamadai became classified as ...
