{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Incredible India Travel | Social Impact & Culture Tours","title":"Loom to Lac, Six Days Through the Weavers, Farmers and Silversmiths of the Deccan","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1329,"description":"About This Episode\nSam 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.\nWhat You Will Hear\nWhy fewer than sixty hand pit looms remain in a town that once wove for an entire region\nHow a specific pocket of soil inside Bidar Fort is the reason Bidriware turns silver black\nWhat makes Kalaburagi the only tur dal growing district in India with its own GI tag\nWhy the whispering gallery inside Bijapur's Gol Gumbaz still works after four centuries\nHow 5 Senses Tours pays every artisan, farmer and priest on this trail directly, built into the cost of the journey itself\nKey Moments\n00:00, Introduction, why this route holds four GI crafts in one trail\n 03:20, Gulbarga Fort and the covered Jama Masjid\n 07:45, Ganagapur, devotion at the meeting of two rivers\n 11:10, Gol Gumbaz's whispering gallery and Ibrahim Rauza\n 16:30, Inside a Guledagudda weaver's home\n 21:15, Badami's sixth century cave temples\n 25:00, The tur dal belt and Kalaburagi's only GI tagged dal\n 28:40, Blackbuck at dawn and the soil that blackens Bidriware\n 33:05, Laad Bazaar, bangles, warq and the crafts of old Hyderabad\n 37:00, Closing thoughts on responsible tourism across the Deccan\nResources and Links\nLoom to Lac tour page- https://5sensestours.com/tour/loom-to-lac/\n Talk to us directly, https://5sensestours.com/contact-button/\nAbout 5 Senses Tours\n5 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...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/eWrZ3doNBWF40S0S56sC17IDwfhLRtHiDkqKOrNCvtA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85Yjg5/Y2Q3ODM2NzZkOTcz/NGJiMWMwMDEzMTFl/YjI3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}