This document provides information about a craft documentation project conducted by students from NIIFT Jalandhar in 2009. It lists 11 students and 5 different crafts that were visited and documented in cities around Jalandhar, including Amritsar, Hoshiyarpur, Jalandhar, Nakodar and Patiala. The crafts documented were inlay work in wood, phulkari embroidery, Punjabi juttis, jalli work and durrie making. It provides a brief introduction to the craft of inlay work in wood, describing its historical origins and techniques where designs are routed out of one material and contrasting materials are fitted into depressions.

1. CRAFTDOCUMENTATION NIIFT JALANDHAR-2009 BATCH GROUP-A

2. NAME OF STUDENT`S 1. ABHISEKH KUMAR (CAPTION) 2. AKSHYA SHRMA 3. CHANDRA PRABHA4. MAQSOOD ALAM5. PAVNEET KAUR 6. PRABHAT KUMAR 7. PRATIBHA GUPTA 8. PURUSHOTTAM NARAYAN 9 . SANGEETA 10. SHIKHA 11. SONAM LAMBA

3. NAME OF CRAFT`S1. INLAY WORK (IN WOOD)2. PHULKARI (EMBROIDERY)3. PUNJABI JUTTI4. JALLI WORK5. DURRIE MAKING

4. VISITING AMRITSAR HOSHIYARPUR JALANDHAR NAKODAR PATIALA

5. CRAFT: . A craft is a branch of profession that requires some particular kind of skilled work. In historical sense, particularly as pertinent to the Medieval history and earlier, the term is usually applied towards people occupied in small-scale production of goods.

6. 1. INLAY(IN WOOD)

7. INTRODUCTION: In its earlier form, known as intarsia, buildings or ruins of buildings in elaborate perspective were depicted in wood, tortoise shell and mother-or-pearl. Later, in the 16th and 17th centuries, the art flourished in Holland, France and Italy and a distinction was introduced between inlay and Marquetry, which together were known as intarsia. In true inlay work the design is routed out in a matrix of one material and a piece of different and contrasting material is fitted into the depression.