Palpa's
iconic karuwas becoming a memory : Locals cite
competition from cheaper machine-made products for the
declining number of traditional workshops, by Madhav
Aryal (kp 07/10/2023)
Handmade
stools bring good income to entire village : Many have
purchased plots and constructed houses with the money
they earned from making stools, by Parbat Portel (kp
02/07/2023)
Nepali
handmade paper factories in Gandaki face existential
crisis : Lack of government support in production and
marketisation amid a decline in the use of such paper
has forced factories to shut down, local entrepreneurs
say, by Ghanashyam Khadka, Prakash Baral and
Agandhar Tiwari (kp 23/02/2023)
Clay
pots made by Kumal community face extinction : Cheaper
plastic options and a lack of quality materials are
affecting families making earthen pots, by Binod
Bhandari (kp 19/02/2023)
19th
Handicraft Trade Fair on December 9-13 (kh
26/11/2022)
Soil
shortage, poor demand decimating Bhaktapur’s
pottery-making : Prajapati community, who specialise in
making earthenware, have asked the Bhaktapur
Municipality to get them a place from where they can
source clay, but are yet to get a response, by Anup
Ojha (kp 25/10/2022)
Handicraft
expo attracts attention of tourists (kh 27/09/2022)
Traditional
weavers fear extinction of craft for shortage of
Himalayan bamboo : Khaptad National Park has restricted
bamboo cutting to once a year, leading to a shortage of
raw material for weavers, by Basanta Pratap Singh
(kp 02/05/2022)
Handicraft
exporters on the brink of collapse amid Omicron
onslaught : Businesses were still reeling from the blow
dealt by the Delta variant when they were hit by the
Omicron outbreak, traders said., by Krishana Prasain
(kp 01/02/2022)
Prajapati
community in Bhaktapur finding it hard to meet the high
demand for clay pots (kh 02/11/2021)
Handicraft
trade fair to be organized on Nov 19-21 (kh
29/10/2021)
Palpa
acts to revive hand-woven dhaka and rescue a local icon
: The training programme aims to turn out 1,500 dhaka
entrepreneurs in three years, officials say, by
Madhav Aryal (kp 13/02/2021)
Handicraft
Year 2021 announced to revive curio industry : The
sector contributes around Rs20 billion to the national
economy annually, according to the Federation of
Handicraft Associations of Nepal, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 15/12/2020)
Handmade
with love: Nepali takes grandma’s socks to the world
(ht 01/12/2020)
Stone
Artisans In Crisis As Demand For Stone Wheel Of
Watermill Declines, by Pratik Ichchhuk Sharma (rn
27/11/2020)
Hundreds
left jobless after model handmade paper factory
fails : Malika Handmade Paper Company, established in
1999, shut down due to negligence, by Basanta Pratap
Singh (kp 26/11/2020)
Women
Engaged In Brewing Homemade Liquor Turn To Spinning
Wool, Make Decent Income, by Gyabu Pangeni (rn
20/11/2020)
Handicraft
shipments predicted to plunge as virus smashes export
market : Domestic sales too have disappeared with no
tourist arrivals and with virus spreading, it is unclear
when they will come, by Krishana Prasain (kp
20/10/2020)
Silversmiths
looking for alternative jobs: Precious metals at record
highs as gold hits Rs 103,500 a tola, silver surges to
Rs 1,405 per tola, by Arpana Ale Magar (ht
08/08/2020)
Lockdown
wipes out handicraft trade as exports drop to zilch: The
sector has suffered losses worth nearly Rs 2 billion in
lost exports in the past two months, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 30/04/2020)
Have
a seat at Muda Gaun: The villagers of Kalijhoda and Naya
Basti in Jhapa have been weaving the traditional stool
for the past 35 years, but it is still just enough to
fulfil their basic needs, by Parbat Portel (kp
23/12/2019)
Traders
call for quality assurance to promote Nepali handicraft
(rep 15/12/2019)
The
traditional weapon that is losing its edge: The popular
Bhojpure khukuris are exported all around the world,
particularly to the US, the UK, Germany, France, Italy,
and Spain. But in recent years, its production has been
largely stifled, by Alisha Shrestha (kp 16/10/2019)
Handicraft
becomes a good source of livelihood, by Sarita
Shrestha (rep 14/10/2019)
Booming
business: Nepali felt handicraft: Last fiscal year, the
country exported felt items worth Rs1.84 billion, a 19
percent increase compared to the export earnings in
2017-18, by Rajesh Khanal (kp 09/09/2019)
In
Gorkha’s highlands, the bakhu-weaving tradition is
slowly dying: Because the task demands a lot of labour,
many villagers are looking for easier alternatives,
by Hariram Uprety (kp 05/09/2019)
Handicraft
exports tumble by double digits in first half, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 27/03/2019)
The
word ‘handicraft’ has been exploited and misused in our
country, interview with Pravin Chitrakar (kp
18/02/2019)
FHAN
to build SAARC Design Center, Nepal Handicraft Village,
by Pawan Khanal (rep 12/01/2019)
Women
craft makers face gender inequality, by Krishana
Prasain (kp 16/11/2018)
16th
Handicraft Trade Fair from Wednesday (rep
13/11/2018), Handicraft
Trade Fair kicks off (kp 14/11/2018), ‘Nepali
handmade items will be given priority’ (kp
15/11/2018)
Bhaktapur’s
potters
adapt to survive: Descendants of clay lamp makers carry
on an ancestral profession for the festival of lights,
by Monica Deupala (nt 02/11/2018)
Handicraft
Trade Fair to start from Nov 14 (kp 27/10/2018)
Export
of
Nepali handicrafts fall by 3 percent: India and China
produce handicraft products at a much larger scale for
the international market, which means the prices are
comparatively lower than Nepal’s handicraft goods (kp
09/09/2018)
37th
general assembly of the WCC-APR kicks off (kp
31/08/2018)
Lalitpur
set to join club of Craft City (kp 17/08/2018)
Rs270
million Saarc Handicraft Design Centre to be built
(kp 20/07/2018)
Dhukuti
open house: ACP showcases latest Nepali handicraft
(kp 11/06/2018)
FHAN
lauds government efforts to promote handicraft sector:
‘Some key issues remained unaddressed’ (rep
02/06/2018)
Leg-up
for handicrafts: Handicraft industry can generate jobs
and encourage youths to explore livelihoods options
within Nepal (ht 16/01/2018)
South
Asian Handicraft festival kicks off (kp 12/01/2018)
15th
Handicraft Trade Fair kicks off in KTM, by Abhishek
Chitrakar (kp 18/11/2017), Handicraft
fair ends with over Rs80m in transaction (kp
22/11/2017)
Tihar
brings momentary boom for a potter family, by Anup
Ojha (kp 18/10/2017)
Traditional
craft dying out as technology takes over, by Anita
Shrestha (ht 16/10/2017)
The
Nepali
paper: Lokta was widely used in Nepal until 1950s when
cheap machine-made papers from India took over market
and pushed this traditional paper to near extinction,
by Reshu Bashyal (rep 14/10/2017)
Handicraft
exports up 13pc, by Yamini Bantawa (kp 03/09/2017)
Demand
for
traditional handicrafts surges, by Krishna Prasad
Gautam (kp 08/06/2017)
13th
IITFT
Expo 2017 from next week (ht 13/04/2017)
Govt
to help start 100,000 cottage industries across the
country (rep 01/03/2017)
Handicraft
exports
increase 21pc in H1, by Sakchham Karki (kp
28/02/2017)
Exhibition
of
cottage industry goods opens (kp 24/02/2017), Call
to promote cottage, small industries (rep
24/02/2017), Cottage
industry
goods fair sees 900k visitors: The six-day fair
showcased goods manufactured by cottage and small
enterprises from all over Nepal, by Sakchham Karki
(kp 01/03/2017)
As
young
move away, traditional craft dies out in Nepal (ht
12/02/2017)
Handicraft
Trade
Fair to start from Nov 25 (kp 21/11/2016), 14th
handicraft
fair kicks off (kp 26/11/2016), 14th
Handicraft
Trade Fair concludes (ht 30/11/2016), Handicraft
Trade
Fair sees Rs12m turnover (kp 30/11/2016), Handicraft
fair sees transactions worth Rs 100 million (rep
30/11/2016)
Bamboo
artisans
in Rajbiraj struggling for survival (ht 07/11/2016)
Bhaktapur’s
pottery
makers struggling to keep trade alive: Pottery making is
no longer the family trade for majority of the 200-odd
households that live in Bola Che, by Pratichya Dulal
(kp 31/10/2016)
A
basket case: Can the traditional bamboo handicraft
industry revitalise itself?, by Smriti Basnet (nt
28/10/2016)
Metal
craft
exports up on Chinese demand (kp 23/09/2016)
Revenues
from
handicraft exports slip marginally (kp 15/09/2016)
Handicraft
entrepreneurs
disappointed by budget (kp 06/06/2016)
Handicraft
Trade
Fair kicks off in the Capital (ht 06/05/2016), Eager
participants
throng 13th Handicraft Trade Fair (kp 07/05/2016), Handicraft
Fair
concludes (ht 10/05/2016), Handicraft
Trade
Fair records sales of Rs 60 million (rep 10/05/2016)
A
time to every purpose: Many traditional occupations are
on the verge of vanishing forever in Kathmandu, by
Sahina Shrestha (nt 06/05/2016)
Handicraft
business
gets boost from online stores, by Prahlad Rijal (kp
02/05/2016)
Handicraft
Trade
Fair slated to open May 5 (kp 29/04/2016)
Temblor
shakes
down handicraft export (ht 22/03/2016)
FHAN
elects
new committee (ht 10/01/2016)
Handicraft
traders
hope for Christmas bonanza (kp 17/12/2015)
Lack
of
raw materials hit handicraft sector hard (kp
08/12/2015)
Post-quake
Nepal
struggles to preserve vanishing skills (kp
29/10/2015)
Khukuri
exports
cut sharplydue to highway blockage (kp 14/10/2015)
Handicrafts
Trade
Fair to open from Nov 26 (kp 09/10/2015)
Strikes
hit
handicraft business in Biratnagar, by Jitendra Shah
(kp 24/08/2015)
Handicraft
exports
inch up 2.55pc in first half (kp 05/02/2015)
Simplify
procedures:
Handicraft exporters (kp 28/02/2015)
Women’s
handicraft
expo slated to open Saturday (kp 13/02/2015)
Handicraft
training
for women’s economic empowerment (ht 09/02/2015)
Dying
occupation:
The government needs to bring special programs for the
betterment of Kumals, by Nirajan Paudel (rep
06/02/2015)
Breaking
the
mould: Kathmandu’s traditional metal artisans can’t
survive without modern copyright laws working on their
behalf, by Nhooja Tuladhar (kp 24/01/2015)
Men
behind
our maadals, by Jessica Rai (ht 24/01/2015)
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