{"id":6919,"date":"2025-12-15T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/?p=6919"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:32:30","slug":"srinagar-weaver-wins-national-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/2025\/12\/15\/srinagar-weaver-wins-national-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Srinagar weaver wins national award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Srinagar, Dec 15:\u00a0<\/strong>For Manzoor Ahmad Khan, a 68-year-old carpet weaver from Kathi Darwaza, Rainawari Srinagar, the National Award he received from the President of India is more than just recognition, as it is a tribute to a lifetime of quiet perseverance and passion for Kashmir\u2019s world-renowned carpet craft.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been working on carpets for over 50 years,\u201d Khan said, his voice calm but proud. \u201cThis art has been my life. Even when the work slowed down and the world moved on, I stayed with my loom. I never thought of quitting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Khan said none of his family members or relatives continued this tradition. \u201cMy son is into his own business, and no one from my family chose this line. But I never gave up. Someone had to keep this art breathing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also recalled his early days as a teenage apprentice. \u201cI started when I was just a boy. My teacher taught me how each knot carries a story. I never imagined that one day, the President of India would honour me for it,\u201d he said, smiling softly.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said his intricately woven carpets are celebrated for their precision and traditional Kashmiri motifs. \u201cThis award gives me strength, not just for myself, but for every artisan who works in silence. It means our art still matters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Manzoor Ahmad Khan, is among the few remaining traditional weavers in Srinagar who continue to work on hand-knotted carpets entirely by hand, a process that can take months to complete a single piece. He received the National Award from President Droupadi Murmu and earned a Certificate of Excellence for preserving Jammu and Kashmir\u2019s craft heritage<strong>\u2014(KNO)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Dec 15:\u00a0For Manzoor Ahmad Khan, a 68-year-old carpet weaver from Kathi Darwaza, Rainawari Srinagar, the National Award he received from the President of India is more than just recognition, as it is a tribute to a lifetime of quiet perseverance and passion for Kashmir\u2019s world-renowned carpet craft. \u201cI have been working on carpets for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6921,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6919\/revisions\/6921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmirthunder.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}