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59-year-old Kalawati Chaudhary of Rajpur Rural Municipality-2 Materia is known as Dhakia Guru. He is the only instructor in the village who teaches dhakia weaving. There is an opportunity to train him in other districts as well. She has commercialized the traditional dhakia weaving skills of the Tharu community.
She makes different designs and sells them herself. She also teaches others. In 2072, she took a one-month dhakia weaving training in two stages. Then she started selling dhakia by weaving it. His couriers reach various cities of the country including Kathmandu. In her house, 9 women regularly knit and sell dhakia.
She has registered Laliguras handicraft industry two years ago . His dhakias are also sold in fairs and festivals. Some orders come and she knits accordingly. She has been busy training for five years. She has given training from 15 to 45 days.
So far, she said that she has taught 150 people to weave dhakia in 15 training sessions. Most of the educated people weave and sell. They are becoming entrepreneurs," she said, "This is our traditional skill. We have added professionalism to it.'
She learns to knit by finding new designs on YouTube. Along with dhakia, she also weaves and teaches hotcase, khutruke, pen holder, cap, gamala, pooja dani and delwa . She earns Rs 20,000 per month from her woven goods. She earns up to 30 thousand rupees per month from training.
She has recently been awarded as the best trainer by Creating Possibilities Nepal and Rajpur Village with Rs 25,000 in cash. A dhakia prepared by him is sold up to 10 thousand rupees. He has goods worth Rs 1,500 to Rs 10,000 with him. "Decorated dhakias are worth a lot," she said, "decorated dhakias are used in events like weddings and festivals." The use of other goods is also increasing.
She said that the demand comes from different districts and she weaves accordingly. Munj, Punja, Peacock Feather, Sutahi, Muga and Phula are needed to weave Dhakiya and other items. Some of these raw materials are available locally and some have to be bought from outside.
Dhakia is used in every festival of the Tharu community. Tharu women, who used to weave dhakia only for their own use in the traditional way, are now taking training and starting to weave modern designs . She says that the skills in the Tharu community are being commercialized.
