Panaji: Ten years after its initial rejection, the state’s handicraftsmen are hopeful of receiving the prestigious Geographical Indication (GI) tag for their iconic coconut carving and shell items.

KOCHI: When Valsan Unungal sees a coconut, it piques his interest. This 50-year-old man breaks it and keeps the shells with him so he could fashion out portraits on the husk. The byproduct of the ...

He has always been an admirer of the tall, magnificent coconut trees. And the nature lover in him wanted to make better use of the coconut shells that were burnt in his backyard. So, G.S. Chandu Nair ...

Seated in a small, dust-laden shed in Klungkung, Ketut Yastini and her husband, Made Buda, are hard at work making buttons from coconuts. Since the early morning, Ketut has been cleaning out the ...

Zhang Bidi works on coconut carving in Qionghai city, South China's Hainan province, on Feb 18, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua] HAIKOU -- Wearing masks and overalls, two villagers skillfully drilled holes into ...

HAIKOU, February 14. /TASS/. China's Hainan strives to popularize the artistic carving of sea shells and products made from them, reported the Haikouwan portal. According to him, in recent years, the ...

Zhang Xingfu says he got his carving knives 59 years ago, and for them to be effective all he needs to do is sharpen them from time to time. [Photo by Liu Xiaoli/China Daily] Zhang Xingfu, 72, usually ...

The handicraft items, carved out of coconut shells by P K C Mohammad Master, not only exhibit the skills he is blessed with, but they also attempt to dispel the conventional notion that coconut shells ...

Seychellois Donatien Freminot has been appointed as special foreign expert of Hainan Provincial Arts and Crafts Society for coconut carving. For the next five years, Freminot can represent the Chinese ...

As a child, M. Sakthi Ganesh used to cover the walls of his house in Thanjavur with scrawls. Instead of reprimanding him, his mother Prema encouraged his doodles. Little did he realise then that his ...

HAIKOU, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Wearing masks and overalls, two villagers skillfully drilled holes into coconut shells and used machines to cut them into circular and square pieces. They are residents of ...