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Lac-turned wooden toys
Anwar Hussain
Channapatna, Karnataka · 28 years at the bench
Third-generation lac-turner. Trained on the manual lathe since he was nine.
Anwar runs a workshop of six artisans and supplies most of the Channapatna stacking toys and rattles in the Woodeon catalogue. His daughter Asma is the only woman lac-turner in the village.