Exploring Leather Crafts in Santiniketan
Summer Internship at Santiniketan, Guided by Ms Maitri Barman

Santiniketan was a place which interested me since childhood. I wanted to learn something new from scratch. I headed to Silpa Sadana after being referred there by my Professor. The pottery department there was in itself interesting, boasting fine pieces of work put up by students, but there was something I felt more attached to – the leather crafts department. Leather has been in use since time immemorial.

What I learnt about leather crafts in Santiniketan was that it was something from South East Asia, nurtured and evolved along with the traditional arts of batik and leather embossing which is practiced only in Santiniketan.