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Pakistan’s last guardian of wheat straw art: Video
Pakistani artist Abed Shah says he is the last practitioner of wheat straw painting, a 200-year-old craft that transforms dried wheat stalks into intricate artworks.
Working from his workshop, Shah carefully prepares, dyes and assembles the fragile material to create scenes ranging from landscapes to calligraphy, keeping alive a tradition he began learning as a child in 1970. Despite its painstaking process and deep cultural roots, Shah says the art remains little understood at home, and his greatest hope is to pass the craft on to a new generation before it disappears entirely.
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