Walk through the narrow lanes of the silk weaving neighborhood ... their craft in Varanasi for about 100 years. It’s a similar story for most weavers here. The community is mostly Muslim ...

The markets in Varanasi offer a wide range of items from beautiful silk sarees to exquisite wooden ... and Georgette can be found with their own method of weaving and motifs inspired by Mughal ...

The demand for silk from Karnataka is not restricted to Varanasi. Even Surat in Gujarat has a large weaving community that sources raw silk from different parts of Karnataka, including ...

It seems like a counterintuitive idea: help a desperately poor community ... in India. Varanasi, in India’s northeastern state of Uttar Pradesh has been famous for its silk-weaving artisans ...