A Market for Charpais from Punhana

Samna Khan, a helper, assigns charpais for weaving to Anguri, the only woman weaver of charpais in Punhana.

The unfinished charpais are kept out of the workshop for finishing.

Carpentry and weaving of a new charpai takes place inside the workshop in Punhana.

Samna Khan, a helper, can be seen stacking up the unfinished charpais outside the workshop in Punhana market for further weaving and finishing.

On average, a weaver can make 2-3 charpais in a day.

The charpai shop is surrounded by carpentry shops in the Punhana marketplace.

For better promotion and marketing of the charpais, the craftsmen display the charpais in these shops too.

A young boy, after his school, can be seen learning to carve the leg or paya of a charpai in Punhana, against a finished charpai made using the paanch phool bunai technique

Master craftsmen, Shamsher Khan (45) and Mahmood Khan (41) sit against their creation in Punhana workshop.

They have been making the charpais for the last 22 years and from the last 14 years have taken up creating new designs using colourful resham baan or rope.

Punhana charpais are made in different sizes for different purpose.

Colourful Peedas (21 x 21 inch) are small sitting stool which are used by the ladies to do household work.

A contemporary Peedas (21 x 21 inch) woven in silver coloured baan or rope to suit the current interior decor trends of urban markets, displayed at a luxury hotel event in New Delhi.

A craftsman demonstrating charpai weaving techniques at an urban crafts bazaar at New Delhi.

A child can be reading a book on a charpai at an urban crafts bazaar at New Delhi.

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