Who is Abdul Majeed Zargar, the last Mukh craftsman to keep alive the hand-carved wooden shuttle used in Kashmiri pashmina? | Today’s news

For nearly five decades, 75-year-old Srinagar craftsman Abdul Majeed Zargar Mukh has been making the wooden boats necessary for pashmina weaving. As factory-made alternatives become more common, he is among the last Mukh manufacturers in the valley, and fears that the craft will not survive him.