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Madur Artist Gouri Rani Jana at Work
2019
Banglanatak
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Gouri Rani Jana is a National Award winning Madur artist known for her intricate weaving skills. She heads Ma Kali Mat Industry, a mat weaving unit of 40 women. Gouri Rani Jana's unit introduced Masland mats made of natural colour dyed sticks. Gouri is known for weaving portraits and landscapes in mats and is a member of the Paschim Medinipur Sarta Madur Bayan Shilpi Kalyan Samiti, a society of Madur weavers. She has showcased her work in various fairs and exhibitions in India and abroad like OIMO Festival in Kyrgyzstan (2016) and URKULT Festival in Sweden (2018).
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- Title: Madur Artist Gouri Rani Jana at Work
- Date Created: 2019
- Location: Paschim Medinipur
- Rights: Banglanatak.com
- About the craft: Masland or Mataranchi is an exclusive and expensive handmade variety of Madur made with intricate weaving skills by weavers of Sabang in Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. The origin of the craft in West Bengal dates back to the Muslim period, when ‘Masland’ mats of superfine variety with fine cotton as weft were produced under royal patronage. Mats were collected as revenue of the Jaigirdari system. In 1744, Nawab Alibardi Khan issued a charter to the Jaigirdars in this regard and as a result, it was obligatory to supply ‘Masland’ mats for use in the collectorate. The traditional mat making families still retain the knowledge of weaving this fine variety of exclusive mats locally known as Masland or Mataranchi.
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