{"id":24491,"date":"2025-11-08T06:57:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24491"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:48:44","slug":"world-craft-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/world-craft-city\/","title":{"rendered":"World Craft City"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About World Craft City:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a groundbreaking <strong>initiative launched<\/strong> in 2014 by the <strong>World Crafts Council<\/strong> AISBL (WCC-International) in recognition of the pivotal role local authorities, craftspeople, and communities play in cultural, economic, and social development worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>establishes a dynamic network of craft cities<\/strong> across the globe, aligning with the principles of the creative economy.<\/li>\n<li>Under the World Craft City Programme, <strong>Jaipur<\/strong> (Rajasthan<strong>), Mammalapuram<\/strong> (Tamil Nadu) and <strong>Mysore (<\/strong>Karnataka)have been added as craft cities from India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some of the famous crafts from Srinagar<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Papier-Mache:<\/strong> It refers to the art of making an object from <strong>mashed and molded paper pulp<\/strong>. The object so made is traditionally painted and usually covered with a layer of lacquer or varnish.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pashmina:<\/strong> Shawls, Kani, Sozni: The <strong>Pashmina fabric,<\/strong> hand spun and hand woven, emerged from the picturesque landscape of Kashmir.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sozni shawls:<\/strong> Sozni embroidery is one of such arts that have its origin into the geography of Kashmir. The word Sozni is a Persian derived word which means needle and sozankari, the needle work. The person who performs this craft is called the sozankar.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about World Crafts Council<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was founded by Ms.Aileen O.Webb, Ms.Margaret M.Patch, and <strong>Smt. Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay<\/strong> in 1964, as a non-governmental and non-profit organization.<\/li>\n<li>The main objective of the World Crafts Council is to <strong>strengthen the status of crafts<\/strong> in cultural and economic life.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> The Council aims to promote fellowship among crafts persons by offering them encouragement, help, and advice.<\/li>\n<li>It fosters and assists cultural exchange through conferences, international visits, research study, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and other activities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is UNESCO\u2019s Creative Cities Network (UCCN)?<\/h3>\n<p>The UCCN was created in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities that have identified creativity as a strategic factor for sustainable urban development. It now includes 350 cities in over a hundred. countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/jammu-and-kashmir\/srinagars-world-craft-city-tag-allows-kashmir-to-re-connect-globally\/article68328550.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Srinagar\u2019s \u2018World Craft City\u2019 tag, allows Kashmir to re-connect globally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Craft City is a groundbreaking initiative launched in 2014 by the World Crafts Council AISBL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}