Handy Work of Women in Sindh: A SociologicalAnalysis of Village Tando Soomro

Handicraft is handiwork done manually by local and traditionalpeople, creating products using raw and indigenous materials. Thepeculiarity of this work is that, it takes a lot of time and concentrationwhich is totally different and more elegant than machine work.Moreover, this artistic work requires painstaking efforts. This work isdone mainly by hand and with the help of few tools. Mostly the artisticwomen, who are doing this work, get very meager wages by the middleman, and its exploitation of their work. Sindh is the land of artisticpeople it has an ancient civilization dating back to 5000 years. Theculture, civilization and traditional workforce of Sindh have existedsince pre-historic times.The purpose of this article is to highlight and introduce thehandiwork done locally by domestic women in Tando Soomro, one ofthe villages of district Tandoallahyar, Sindh, Pakistan.