Srinagar: Twenty two year old Aziz Ur Rehaman from Gulabagh area of Srinagar is earning by his talent of carving ornaments by animal bones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The practice is called bone crafting. Such an art practice is unique in Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) Aziz said, \u201cI make different things from the bones of animals\u2014like jewellery, keychains, knives, and other decorative items.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI have always been interested in art and creating things, right from my childhood, I have been making things with the bones of animals from the last two years and in the lockdown I got a chance to nurture my talent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aziz said he was fascinated with carving things out of scrap bones after watching his mother make Harissa (a meat delicacy in Kashmir consumed in winters).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhile making Harissa, you have to boil the meat at such a level that large chunks of meat fall off the bones. When my mother discarded the bones, I took one large bone and carved a knife out of it. I made a small pendant kind of knife and received a lot of appreciation for it on social media,\u201d Aziz said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOnce the carved art pieces are ready, I take pictures of them and post them on my social media platform for sale. Many people have bought my art pieces for their uniqueness,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEarlier my parents didn\u2019t support me as they thought I was wasting my time but today they appreciate me for it. They think it\u2019s better than wasting my time and life in immoral activities,\u201d Aziz said\u2014(KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Srinagar: Twenty two year old Aziz Ur Rehaman from Gulabagh area of Srinagar is earning by his talent of carving ornaments by animal bones. The practice is called bone crafting. Such an art practice is unique in Kashmir. Talking to the news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) Aziz said, \u201cI make different things from the bones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}