Uttar Pradesh Quiz: Handicrafts and GI Tags of Uttar Pradesh

Chikankari is the shadow embroidery of Lucknow, worked in white thread on fine cotton, muslin or chiffon, and its stitches, tepchi, bakhiya, murri, phanda and jaali, are learnt as a set.

Moradabad has worked brass for centuries into engraved, enamelled and lacquered vessels, lamps and decorative ware, and the trade gave it the name Peetal Nagri.

Kannauj is called the perfume capital of India. Its distillers work by the deg and bhapka method, in which flower petals, herbs or sandalwood are heated in copper vessels over a wood fire and the vapour is condensed into a receiver containing sandalwood oil.

Khurja is a town in Bulandshahr district of western Uttar Pradesh, and its thick glazed pottery, painted in bright floral patterns on a white ground, is sold as Khurja pottery and is a registered geographical indication.

Nizamabad is a town in Azamgarh district, and its potters make thin walled black pottery that is rubbed with mustard oil, fired in a closed kiln so that the smoke blackens the clay, and then decorated with silver-coloured patterns applied with a zinc and mercury paste.

Firozabad, near Agra, is called the glass city of India. Its furnaces blow and press glass into bangles, chandeliers, beads, bottles and laboratory ware, and the bangle trade alone supports a very large number of small units in the town, which is why Firozabad is the standard answer whenever glass…

The Geographical Indications Registry works from Chennai under the Controller General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks, which comes under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Bhadohi is called the carpet city and is the largest carpet weaving cluster in India, with looms spread through the neighbouring parts of Mirzapur, Varanasi and Sant Ravidas Nagar.

Gulabi Meenakari is the pink enamelling of Varanasi, in which a rose-pink colour is fired into engraved silver or gold to make birds, flowers and small figures, and it survives with a handful of families in the city.

The Uttar Pradesh government launched the One District One Product programme in January 2018, picking one traditional product for every district and backing it with credit, design, packaging, skill and marketing support so that the craft could be sold outside its own market.