Thatta Ghulamka
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Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka (Urdu ٹھٹھہ غلام کا دھیروکا), known as Doll village of Pakistan,[3][4] is a village in Okara District of Pakistani Punjab. It is situated 27 km from Okara city on the Faisalabad-Okara Road, 7 km from Bangala Gogera stop on Faisalabad-Okara Road.[5] It is 91 km from Faisalabad International Airport, 190 km from Province capital Lahore and 400 km from national capital Islamabad of Pakistan.
Toy village of Pakistan
Thatta Kedona, Doll Village or Toy Village of Pakistan. (Urdu گڑیوں کا گاؤں )[6] In this village, people make handmade traditional Punjabi dolls and other toys as per Pakistani culture and art work exported all over the world. In the 1990s, famous German artist and designer Senta Maria Anna Siller[7] visited Pakistan with her husband on request of their student Amjad Ali. On this visit, they saw a handmade doll made by a local woman, which gave Siller the ambition to empower this village. She lived in Pakistan for almost five years around 1993, to support the women of the village through handicrafts.[8][9]
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References
- ^ "Government Primary School Thatta Ghulam Ka, Sheikhu Sharif, Okara". www.schoolinglog.com.
- ^ "Population and Household Detail from Block to District Level" (PDF). www.pbs.gov.pk. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
- ^ "A peek inside the doll village of Punjab". The Express Tribune. 12 March 2017. Retrieved 2021-01-08.
- ^ "thatta ghulam ka dhero". www.samaa.tv.
- ^ "Pakistan's Village of Dolls draws a world of visitors". December 28, 2019.
- ^ "Thatta Kedona: The Toy Village of Pakistan". May 8, 2005 – via IMDb.
- ^ "COC-Zur Designgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts". www.senta-siller.com.
- ^ "A peek inside the doll village of Punjab". The Express Tribune. March 12, 2017.
- ^ "Thatta Khedona". July 2, 2015.
- ^ "Dr Senta honoured for transforming a village".
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