Accolades

Honoured for a craft revived

Recognition received by our founder, the late Ghulam Mohammad Kanihama, and the Gul-e-Anar weavers’ cooperative he led, from governments, museums and the press across India and Europe.

  1. August 1976
    Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir

    Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah

    A message congratulating Ghulam Mohammad of Kanihama on his efforts to help revive the Kani shawl, and on his venture to record its story in print.

  2. August 1976
    Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs

    Om Mehta, Minister

    Commends Shri Ghulam Mohammad Kanihama for taking up the revival “in right earnest”, setting up looms in the village and training new weavers in the art.

  3. November 1976
    Museum of Ethnography, Basel, Switzerland

    Prof. Alfred Bühler

    After visiting his workshops in Kanihama in September 1976, the museum’s director writes of being “deeply impressed” by the work done under his leadership, calling it “a very important enterprise”.

  4. November 1985
    Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

    Exhibition of Kashmir shawls

    The museum’s exhibition of Kashmir shawls presents the Wani Kani Shawl Project of G. M. Kanihama, ex-MLA, with documentary material, a shawl and a loom.

  5. October 1994
    Governor of Karnataka

    Khurshed Alam Khan

    A message for the exhibition of Pashmina Kani shawls held in Bangalore by the Kanihama weavers’ cooperative, complimenting the society for preserving the age-old tradition.

  6. August 1998
    Shahnaz Husain

    Commendation

    The beauty entrepreneur writes of Ghulam Mohammad as one of the few struggling to preserve this centuries-old tradition, praising its delicate designs and weaving.

  7. February 1999
    Union Minister of Textiles, Government of India

    Kashiram Rana

    After visiting Kanihama in October 1998, the Minister congratulates Shri Ghulam Mohd. Kanihama, president of the Gul-e-Anar society, as its weavers revive the Kani Jamawar with the Ministry’s support.

  8. October 2000
    Expo 2000, Hannover, Germany

    World Exposition

    Ghulam Mohammad presents his Kani shawls at the Indian Pavilion of the world exposition, featured by the Hannover edition of Bild in “Ein Inder webt die edelsten Schals”.

  9. November 2000
    Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir

    Dr Farooq Abdullah

    Writes of his happiness at the interest Ghulam Mohammad generated in Germany in Kani shawls from Kashmir, and at the story carried by the leading newspaper in Hannover.

  10. 2003
    Sri Pratap Singh Museum, Srinagar

    Permanent collection

    Four Kani Jamawars from the Gul-e-Anar cooperative, Shugufta, Tulsi, Chambeli and Cheeti Misri, developed under a Ministry of Textiles project, are received for display in the museum’s crafts gallery.

The original letters, messages and press cuttings are kept in our family archive. We are glad to show them when you visit us at the atelier in Kanihama.

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