Documentation Service Centre

The very nature of craft contradicts traditional methods of documentation.  Craft showcases and celebrates variation and dissimilarity.  In Kachchh, each craft tradition has been passed down through generations by the oral and physical transmission of skills and techniques. It is constantly evolving because craft is a living creative industry.  Documentation must therefore reflect continuity, change, and variation to capture the true spirit of craft practice that distinguishes individual units and family craft tradition.

Services

KHAMIR’s Documentation Service Centre works to:

• Integrate ICT applications and artisan needs to create service products.
• Facilitate  research which synergizes craft documents with rigorous socio-ethnographic-anthropological documentation with areas of design and technological up gradation.
• Support artisans with documented material regarding their own craft, skills, history, techniques, etc which they can use to market their businesses, connect with buyers, and strengthen their brand identity.
• Provide Kachchh artisans with global information resources and exposure.