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Abdul Gafur Khatri (b. 1961)

Eighth-generation Nirona stylus-paste artisan in Kutch who rescued boiled castor-oil Rogan cloth craft and trained rural women practitioners.

Kutchi Rogan artisan stretching a golden castor-oil paste thread onto indigo cloth

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Kutchi Rogan artisan stretching a golden castor-oil paste thread onto indigo cloth
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Simmering pure castor oil in forest clearings near Nirona village in Kutch, Gujarat for forty-eight hours until it polymerises into viscous rogan gel, Abdul Gafur Khatri blends mineral pigments on stone slabs and trails hair-thin threads from a six-inch iron rod onto fabric without metal ever touching cloth. 1

When his household stood as the sole surviving Rogan workshop in India, he opened instruction beyond male family lines to hundreds of village women, receiving the Shilp Guru citation and the Padma Shri (2019). 1

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Kutch Rogan Castor-Resin Cloth Craft
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Wikipedia: Rogan paintingWikipedia — text CC BY-SA 4.0—
"Abdul Gafur Khatri (b. 1961)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/abdul-gafur-khatri · CC BY-SA 4.0.