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There is a village Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka in Pakistan; It is a few kilometres away from Okara on the
Okara-Faisalabad road.
While going to the village you pass through a town Gogera—a place where Rai
Ahmed Khan Kharral broke the famous British jail during War of Independence of
1857 eventually British Extra Assistant Commissioner (Lord) Berkley was
defeated and killed by the resilient locals.
The unique claim of the village to
international fame is the dolls and toys made by village women that are
collectors delight all over the world. Each
toy is meticulously handcrafted from a scratch by local women, who carefully
paint, embroider and sew together scraps of cloth and wool to shape a
delightful work of art. The dolls project has not only been a regular fixture
in exhibitions and trade shows worldwide, but has also won numerous awards.
Dolls made in the village have traveled to International Dolls Museum in Amsterdam and also have been put on
display in the "Theme-park" at EXPO 2000 in Hanover (Germany) as one
of the 767 worldwide projects. Earlier, the dolls participated in International
Toy Fair in Nuremberg
(Germany). Currently,
the dolls are showcased in museums all around the world, from Japan to Turkey
to Iceland.
These dolls show how culture goes
beyond simple work of art and becomes collaboration among applied and natural
sciences as well as other forces that affect our lives.
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Tag :// Dolls,
Tag :// Dolls Museum,
Tag :// dolls project,
Tag :// Dolls Village,
Tag :// Gogera,
Tag :// Okara,
Tag :// Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka,
Tag :// Thatta Kedona,
Tag :// Toys,
Tag :// village women
