Art & Craft in Ladakh

The exception is the village of 'Chiling'. Working in silver, brass and copper. They produc tea and chang pots, teacup-stands and lids, hookah- bases, ladles and bowls, silver chorten for installation in temples and domestic shrines in Ladakh.

'Pattu', the rough, warm, woollen material used for clothing is made from locally produced wool, and woven by semi-professional weavers on portable looms set up in the winter sunshine.

Woodwork is confined largely to the production of pillars and carved lintels for the houses, and the low carved tables or 'Chog-tse' that are a feature of every Ladakhi living-room.

'Thangka painting' on cloth are executed in accordance with strict traditional guidelines handed down the generations.