Shomjida

Saleha Akter Urmi; [Facilitator]

Hand fan project

Fultola (embroidery)

Embroidery (EMB)

Decorative

Sanjidha loves juni ful. When she was younger, she would decorate her hair with this flower. She has embroidered this flower in many of her works.

Gardens in Myanmar were filled with a wide variety of flowers. Drawing inspiration from these flowers, Rohingya women would embroider them on hand fans which were later used to fan guests or sold for 500 kyat thus allowing them to have an income of their own. It is also tradition for parents to present hand fans to their newly wed daughters. Rohingya women wanted to recreate the hand-fans because they want to have a reminder of the possessions they owned in Myanmar.