Aarong is the handicraft-marketing arm of BRAC, the largest NGO in Bangladesh. In the Bengali language, "Aarong" means a village fair. Aarong is an outlet for craftsmen from various trades to sell their traditional handicraft. Aarong began in 1978 and currently supports over 37,000 Bangladeshi artisans of whom 85 percent are women. Aarong's mission is to help sustains rural craftsmanship and find a wider market for their products nationally and internationally. BRAC, formerly known as the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, is a non-governmental organization based in Bangladesh. ...
Aarong products include pottery, crafts on brass, natural fibers, wood, leather, woven cloth and silk products, jewelry and a wide variety of candles. The store specialties are Nakshi Kantha (an icon Bangladeshi craft product with artistic stitch work on cloth is done by village women) and Jamdani sarees. Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ... Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with ones own hands and skill. ... Silk dresses Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. ... Jewelry (the American spelling; spelled jewellery in Commonwealth English) consists of ornamental devices worn by persons, typically made with gems and precious metals. ...
See Also
Shilu Abed // Shilu Abed, 5th March - 23rd April 1997, was a Bangladeshi pioneer of craftmanship and helped to organize craftsmen. ...
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