News in Frames | Threads of tradition
The Hindu
The Hindu News in Frames: April 20, 2025
Bag making is a significant aspect of Assam’s handloom heritage among its tribes such as the Bodo, Karbi, Tiwa and Rabha.
These bags are an integral part of their lives and are intertwined with their socio-cultural, religious, economic, and day-to-day life.
Many tribal communities in Assam are actively adopting and using traditional homemade bags. These cloth bags serve as an essential utility item and also as a symbol of socio-cultural identity. The distinct weaving patterns, colours, and designs on the bags represent a tribe’s unique cultural heritage.
The bags are popular for market runs and temple visits and increasingly becoming the go-to option for labourers and school students.
Students in rural areas of Assam prefer to carry their books in these home-woven shoulder bags as it is light in weight, durable, easy to handle and wash, and above all stylish.
Most of these bags are made locally in traditional looms and many schools in Assam incorporate such bags as part of cultural awareness programmes.
The unique identity woven into these bags are safe for the foreseeable future as the younger generation too uses them with pride.
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