When Kolhapuri went couture


The intricate braid on a Kolhapuri chappal’s upper strap is called the ‘veni’. The toe-loop is the ‘angtha’. Words once confined to traditional craft vocabularies now surface in a slick new video campaign by Gully Labs, a South Delhi sneaker label trying to reinvent the good old leather sandal.
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