Tisser Artisans Trust
Gujarat Craft Explorer
Craft mapping initiative

Where craft actually sits

Click a region to filter, or any dot to open the craft. 62 entries across 34 districts, plotted on the five craft regions.

KutchSaurashtraNorth GujaratCentral GujaratSouth Gujarat
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The register

Every entry currently on the map. Nothing is ranked — a craft held by one family sits level with a craft employing thousands.

Photographs

Each entry has a photo slot, keyed to its filename. Drop a folder named photos/ beside this file with images named craft-id.jpg and they appear everywhere automatically — map thumbnails, list and detail. Until then, each slot falls back to its drawn panel.

To try it now without moving files: pick images from your computer and any whose filename matches a craft id will load straight into the page. Nothing is uploaded — the images stay in this browser tab.

The district atlas

Entries that name each district, highest first. Click any district to filter the map. Low numbers mark thin documentation at least as often as thin craft.

The GI register

Twenty-two registered handicraft geographical indications. Click a row to open the craft where this volume carries one. Source: Geographical Indications Registry, Chennai, and the published state registration lists.

App.Geographical indicationPlaceRegisteredScope
100Sankheda FurnitureVadodara (Sankheda)05.07.2007Gujarat
101Agates of CambayAnand (Khambhat)05.07.2007Gujarat
103Kutch EmbroideryKutch11.07.2007Gujarat
127Tangaliya ShawlSurendranagar09.06.2008Gujarat
171Surat Zari CraftSurat21.05.2009Gujarat
174Kachchh ShawlsKutch04.06.2009Gujarat
221Jamnagari BandhaniJamnagar13.09.2010Gujarat
232Patan PatolaPatan09.03.2011Gujarat
239Warli PaintingShared — Dang · Valsad06.07.2011Shared
380Rajkot PatolaRajkot16.03.2012Gujarat
585Pethapur Printing BlocksGandhinagar (Pethapur)28.08.2017Gujarat
644PithoraChhota Udaipur · Panchmahal23.01.2019Gujarat
694Mata ni PachhediAhmedabad14.07.2020Gujarat
718Kutch Rogan CraftKutch (Nirona)09.11.2020Gujarat
756Kutch BandhaniKutch26.04.2021Gujarat
838Gharchola Craft of GujaratJamnagar · Kutch22.02.2022Gujarat
997Gujarat Suf EmbroideryKutch · Banaskantha26.10.2022Gujarat
1050Kutch AjrakhKutch (Ajrakhpur)31.01.2023Gujarat
1063Ahmedabad Sodagari Block PrintAhmedabad21.03.2023Gujarat
1064Surat Sadeli CraftSurat21.03.2023Gujarat
1090Bharuch Sujani WeavingBharuch22.05.2023Gujarat
—Jasdan PatariRajkot (Jasdan)recentGujarat