Kashmir’s Papier-mache Art

The credit goes to the Shia community of Kashmir for keeping alive papier mache art — colourful, exquisite, highly decorative and delicate — in the Valley since the 14th century.

  • However, this year’s pandemic has given a heavy blow to this art form which is now pinning hope on the World Bank project and on a post-pandemic world returning to Kashmir.

Papier mache

  • Papier-mâché is the French word for "chewed paper".
  • It is based primarily on paper pulp, and is a richly decorated, colourful artifact; generally, in the form of vases, bowls, or cups, boxes, trays, bases of lamps, and many ....
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