Katy Sorabji Patel weaving on the Jonnu Jantar

Zarathustra states he will ‘weave my hymns for Thee alone’ (Yasna 43.8). Thus the poetic fabric of the Gathas also forms in words the religious bedrock of weaving together several aspects in the Zoroastrian faith.The crafts of the Parsis were inherited through the oral tradition. The ancient weaving tradition, of the Kusti on the looms, is believed to have come down from the time of the Prophet himself.