Mati o Manush
Soil & Soul.
Climate migration routes across Bangladesh — the journey from rural roots to the Korail settlement in Dhaka, and the craft traditions carried along the way. Hover a point on the map for its story.
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Korail, Dhaka
Jamdani · Rikshachitta
Korail is where these routes end and begin again. Families arriving from flooded rivers, eroding coasts and broken monsoons rebuild their craft here — Moner Kaj runs a weaving and folk art hub inside the settlement so that arrival does not mean the end of a skill.
Jashore
Jashore Stitch
Erratic rainfall has disrupted the farming calendar artisans once relied on between harvests. As seasons stop working from the fields, some families move toward Dhaka in search of steadier income — carrying the Jashore Stitch with them.
Satkhira
Nokshi Kantha · Shital Pati
Cyclone Amphan (2020) flooded homes and workshops along this coast with saline water, and rising seas keep the reed wetlands shrinking every year. Displaced stitchers carried Satkhira's kantha patterns to Dhaka from memory, since no physical archive survived.
Meet the people behind the routes.
Every product on Moner Kaj carries a maker's own journey.