What Crafts to buy from Varanasi? |
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Jul 30th, 2010, 22:34
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| Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Bangalore
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| What Crafts to buy from Varanasi? Varanasi is famous for many art and craft items.....What did u pick up from varanasi? |
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Jul 31st, 2010, 12:20
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| Whenever I visit Banaras, I buy the famous Banaras silk sarees and the little glass statues of deities which I pick up from the lanes leading to Vishwanath Temple... |
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Jul 31st, 2010, 14:53
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| Maha Guru Member  Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Germany
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| Benares Brassware! |
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Jul 31st, 2010, 18:27
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| On the Road, wherever I am  Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: in the mountains of Idaho . . . now the red-rock plateau of southern Utah
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 | GREAT place for brassware up Vishwanath Lane . . . maybe halfway to the temple, on the left, kind of a indent in the narrow lane, there are several brass places there with very nice pieces. Some good sandalwood pieces also to be found along Vishwanath Lane.
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Aug 27th, 2010, 06:56
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|  Any workshops? Hi all, As mentioned there are things to buy in Varanasi.. Are there any workshops or places that could be visited where there is an opportunity to see people making these products? Thanks Andy  |
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Aug 27th, 2010, 17:09
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| On the Road, wherever I am Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: in the mountains of Idaho . . . now the red-rock plateau of southern Utah
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| Andy, silk weaving can be fairly easily seen, watched, filmed. Though there must be many places in the city, I lived in the Asi Ghat area and found lots of places off the main road from Asi to Dasashawamedh Ghat, closer to Asi than the main ghat. |
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