08/08/2026
“Cha thung la yoooooooooong!”
A call across a village. A circle of women gathering with wool, spindles, butter tea and roasted barley flour. Hands moving almost instinctively as conversations unfold around them.
And then, something remarkable happens.
A length of woven woollen cloth is brushed, stroke after stroke, until its surface transforms into a dense, soft layer resembling the fleece of a lamb.
This is Furook.
A little-documented textile system from Zangskar, Ladakh, where textile making is woven into community, memory, seasonal rhythms and the transmission of knowledge across generations.
For textile researcher Sonal Chanana , documenting Furook meant looking beyond the finished textile to understand the people, practices and relationships that make it possible.
In Issue 06 of Kriti Magazine, Sonal takes us to Zangskar to explore this remarkable textile tradition and the knowledge held within it.
Read the complete story of Sonal Chanana’s work with Furook in Kriti Magazine Issue 06.
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