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Kardo - Chintan Rabari Short Sleeve, Indigo
Kardo - Chintan Rabari Short Sleeve, Indigo
Boxy fit, open collar, short sleeve shirt with hand-applique work on handwoven khadi indigo fabric.
The Rabari community were originally nomadic travelers, with some settling in Kutch, Gujarat. The women of the community, now working with Kala Raksha, a grassroots social enterprise that is dedicated to preserving traditional arts, created a scene from their memories of partition and the migration from Pakistan to post-partition India, using a traditional hand-embroidered appliqué technique.
Partition affected millions and this shirt is dedicated to Saroj Kapahi, mother of Kardo founder Rikki Kher, whose family migrated from Kasur to Jalandhar and finally settled in Delhi in 1949.