Loom to Lac, Six Days Through the Weavers, Farmers and Silversmiths of the Deccan
About This Episode
Sam and Taylor trace the full route of 5 Senses Tours' newest private trail, Loom to Lac, six days from Kalaburagi to Hyderabad that puts travellers inside a Guledagudda weaver's home, a Bidar silversmith's workshop, and a tur dal farming family's fields, before ending among the four hundred year old bangle makers of Hyderabad's Laad Bazaar. Along the way they unpack why this stretch of the Deccan holds four separate Geographical Indication crafts inside a single week long journey, a claim almost no other route in India can make.
What You Will Hear
- Why fewer than sixty hand pit looms remain in a town that once wove for an entire region
- How a specific pocket of soil inside Bidar Fort is the reason Bidriware turns silver black
- What makes Kalaburagi the only tur dal growing district in India with its own GI tag
- Why the whispering gallery inside Bijapur's Gol Gumbaz still works after four centuries
- How 5 Senses Tours pays every artisan, farmer and priest on this trail directly, built into the cost of the journey itself
Key Moments
00:00, Introduction, why this route holds four GI crafts in one trail
03:20, Gulbarga Fort and the covered Jama Masjid
07:45, Ganagapur, devotion at the meeting of two rivers
11:10, Gol Gumbaz's whispering gallery and Ibrahim Rauza
16:30, Inside a Guledagudda weaver's home
21:15, Badami's sixth century cave temples
25:00, The tur dal belt and Kalaburagi's only GI tagged dal
28:40, Blackbuck at dawn and the soil that blackens Bidriware
33:05, Laad Bazaar, bangles, warq and the crafts of old Hyderabad
37:00, Closing thoughts on responsible tourism across the Deccan
03:20, Gulbarga Fort and the covered Jama Masjid
07:45, Ganagapur, devotion at the meeting of two rivers
11:10, Gol Gumbaz's whispering gallery and Ibrahim Rauza
16:30, Inside a Guledagudda weaver's home
21:15, Badami's sixth century cave temples
25:00, The tur dal belt and Kalaburagi's only GI tagged dal
28:40, Blackbuck at dawn and the soil that blackens Bidriware
33:05, Laad Bazaar, bangles, warq and the crafts of old Hyderabad
37:00, Closing thoughts on responsible tourism across the Deccan
Resources and Links
Loom to Lac tour page- https://5sensestours.com/tour/loom-to-lac/
Talk to us directly, https://5sensestours.com/contact-button/
Talk to us directly, https://5sensestours.com/contact-button/
About 5 Senses Tours
5 Senses Tours is a Ministry of Tourism recognised, Outlook Responsible Tourism Award winning private tour operator running fully customised cultural journeys across more than fifteen Indian cities since 2015. Every tour pays the artisans, farmers and communities travellers meet directly, at the time of the visit, built into the cost of the trip itself.
About the Host
Incredible India Travel is hosted by Sam and Taylor, and produced under Madhusudan Narayanan of 5 Senses Tours, bringing listeners in more than one hundred countries closer to the stories, crafts and communities behind India's most distinctive journeys.
Short Episode Description, for directories
Loom to Lac is a six day private trail from Kalaburagi to Hyderabad that touches four Geographical Indication crafts, Guledagudda weaving, Bidriware, Kalaburagi tur dal and Hyderabad's lac bangles, in a single journey. Sam and Taylor walk through the weavers, farmers, silversmiths and bangle makers behind each stop, and explain how 5 Senses Tours builds direct community payment into every step.
Discover the full itinerary at https://5sensestours.com/tour/loom-to-lac/
Discover the full itinerary at https://5sensestours.com/tour/loom-to-lac/
