India GOWorkshops in Delhi
Block-printing, weaving and pottery at the Crafts Museum
Spend a morning in the museum's craft courtyard where invited artisans work in the open (a potter at the wheel, a printer laying blocks, a carver cutting wood) and sit down at the wheel yourself when the potter offers.
museum entry and a small extra paid to the artisan for a turn at the wheel · museum opening hours; the artisan roster changes through the year and is thinner in peak summer
The attar counter at Gulab Singh Johrimal, Dariba Kalan
Sit at a two-hundred-year-old counter in the silver lane while glass stoppers come out one after another and single-note attars (jasmine, oud, vetiver, the monsoon-earth mitti) are dabbed onto your wrist to be smelled against each other.
free · shop hours; the Chandni Chowk lanes are quietest early and largely shut on Sunday
A pottery course at the Sanskriti Kendra ceramic studio
Work at a wheel in a walled artists' village on Delhi's southern edge, where a ceramic centre sits between a terracotta museum and studios used by resident artists from around the world.
from ₹7300 · by course intake; check with the Kendra
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