Bamboo Weaving Workshop

All the basic needs of the tribal community of Veti Murbad – the village in which we have our office – were managed locally by using resources from the forests and through pre-industrialization and pre-globalization farming techniques. Whether it is Warli Art from rice flour, alcohol from various fruits, medicines from forest herbs, houses and tools from reeds and wood, clothes from natural and native forest fibers, or various bamboo artifacts – we can witness how the tribal community, through ingenious skills, enables the sustainable usage of biodiversity within that context. As inter-generational availability of all such resources had to be maintained, sustainable use also translated into sustainable conservation.

 However, with the increasing consumption of industrial products due to the propagation of their supposed benefits through media like radio and television, more and more such artifacts were either eliminated from daily life in the tribal society or replaced with industrial…