Comments on: Video: Weaving Jaaii Flowers

By: Arun Shanbhag

Arun Shanbhag — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:54:40 +0000

Thank you Madhav.

You are right, the ‘maam’ makes it look so easy. I don’t even know if anyone of ours or the next generation would even have the patience to sit in one place and do this repetitive weave.

Thank you also for reminding me to use more video to capture such vignettes of our heritage. I can see a whole video konkani encyclopedia Ok, lets get to work.

Hope you and rest are doing well.
Best
Arun

By: Madhav Prabhu

Madhav Prabhu — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:04:35 +0000

Thanks for posting this nice video clip, Arun. I have seen the Jaaii flowers before on statues of gods like the Nag Devata and never knew how they were made. But the gentleman who is weaving it makes it look deceptively simple – I know for a fact that it would take a long time to teach someone like me to weave a 1 inch long braid. It is only through such videos that our generation can learn about some of our cultural heritage, which would be very difficult to explain otherwise. Keep it up.
Best,
–Madhav