Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Women of the Rajbanshi tribe in West Bengal have been weaving jute into mats, bags, and other products for generations. Many ...

Women of the Rajbanshi tribe in West Bengal, India, have been weaving jute into mats, bags, and other products for generations. Many depend on the craft to make their livelihoods. But mass-produced ...

Artist Harsha Puthusserry is on a mission. She employs art to empower women weaving various patterns of jute to fight the plastic menace. In a way this is art for life’s sake. “I have always been ...

Jamshedpur, Feb. 23: In unity, strands gain strength. Around 130 women jute item makers from 10 self-help groups in Parsudih panchayat have formed a single cluster to produce in bulk and variety for a ...

Recently, while passing through the bustling streets of Gulshan-1, an elderly vendor selling beautifully stitched jute bags and mats caught my attention. For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's ...

Typically associated with the crude ‘gunny bag’ used in the bazaars of the Indian sub-continent, jute is now very much up-market with an amazing variety of fashionable products being turned out from ...

This was amply evident at the Bangladesh stall in the X'mas Charity Bazaar held at the plush Galle Face Hotel in Colombo on Sunday. The Sri Lankan capital’s elite, local as well as expatriate, made a ...