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Craft
Pauchi
TownKumaon
StateUttarakhand
Craft typeCraft
GI tagNot yet registered
About
A traditional 24-karat gold wrist ornament worn by married Kumaoni and Garhwali women, made of gold beads threaded and sewn onto a red fabric band rather than cast as a solid bangle.
Did you know? Because the beads are stitched to cloth instead of forged into a single hoop, a pauchi can be resized or repaired by a local goldsmith without melting down the gold, a practical feature that has kept the craft alive across generations.