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Biren Kumar Basak (b. 1951)

Phulia pit-loom weaver of Nadia district, West Bengal, celebrated for narrative extra-weft Tangail and sheer Jamdani muslin saris.

Bengali Jamdani weaver inserting discontinuous extra-weft threads by hand on a Phulia pit-loom

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Bengali Jamdani weaver inserting discontinuous extra-weft threads by hand on a Phulia pit-loom
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Resettling with his family from Tangail in East Bengal to Phulia in Nadia district after Partition, Biren Kumar Basak began as a daily-wage handloom weaver before reviving ultra-fine discontinuous extra-weft Jamdani figural muslin weaving across dozens of rural Nadia villages. 1

Mentoring more than five thousand pit-loom weavers—including large women's yarn-preparatory guilds—in high-count cotton and mulberry-silk Jamdani, he received the Sant Kabir Handloom Award and the Padma Shri (2021). 1

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Jamdani Muslin Weaving
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Traditional Art of Jamdani Weaving — Craft & Master WeaversMinistry of Textiles, Government of India, 2021—
"Biren Kumar Basak (b. 1951)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/biren-kumar-basak · CC BY-SA 4.0.
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