Thatta Kedona

Culture is a Basic Need

Skin Painting
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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Art seems to have been important to almost all human societies since before recorded history. Art expressions have been, and still are, used to record, to explain, to interpret, to predict, to gain awareness, and to express those things cultures find important,” wrote by Turner Rogers, an associate professor of art education at te University of South Alabama.

This assertion is truer in case of Pakistan where some of the medieval arts have originated, and have not only been preserved but are practiced till date. The history of Pakistani arts and crafts – Kashi work, painting of skin, woodworks and painting on wood items -- goes back to medieval period.

Among the various arts that are practiced in Pakistan, skin painting has attained a higher state of refinement and Pakistan is famous this art around the world. The use of foliage or branches and leaves of trees and superb richness of colours (mainly blue) in skin painting is an evidence of Persian influence. As Persian arts themselves have been under Chinese Mongol influence, therefore some historians are of the view that skin painting had originally come from Kashghar China. Over a period of centuries Pakistani work has matured and developed a unique and distinctive style of its own. The finest quality work is done on the camel skin in southern Punjab (Multan, Bahawalpur, Dera Ghazi Khan) and several products are exported.

The tedious technique of shaping the camel skin crafts and decorating them with indegenously prepared lacquer colours is an age old tradition that has withstood the test of time. This is a part of our ancient cultural heritage and needs to be preserved. Not only that, there is always a room to bring into the art new innovations, endow it with fresh spirit and set the science as its guide. The range of possibilities in the field of ceramics is very vast. The whole world is there to appreciate the work.

How to preserve the craft for our next generations?

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The activities of Senta Siller
Monday, August 19, 2024

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from 1945 till date

Our project initiator is more than that;

more than 75 years of successful work are

recorded in the following list:

Publications:

Catalogue, 46 p., © 2015

Compilation, 60 p.,© 2021

SSI 88, 110 p., © 2023

Paper Cut, 36 p.,© 2024

Musicales, 56 p., © 2024

AphoMics, 44 p., © 2024

KOB (Children's Outerwear), 44 p., © 2024

Puppetery, 88 p., © 2024

Naturales, 50 p., © 2024

Materiales, 34 p., © 2024

Fairytales and Toys, 36 p., © 2024

Marketing, 50 p. © 2024

Social, 36 p., © 2024

Training, 40 p. , © 2024

Research, 40 p., © 2024

Privado, 112 p., © 2025

and compiled from the archives

/SentaSillerArchiv-Landgut Stober-Cultura e.V. Nauen + ForZat-HVK-DGFK e.V. Berlin

Al Andalus 1954, 44 p., © 2023

Greece 1955, 44 p., © 2023

Three Little Dragon 1967, 24 p., © 2024

Marienleben 1970, 40 p., © 2023

Gnomi, 1985, 56 p., © 1985

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Designing for coalescence
Friday, August 9, 2024

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A design framework to support shared stakeholder agency

in Pakistan’s craft for empowerment system

by

Dr Gwendolyne Kulick

Dr Gwendolyne Kulick was a volunteer in the TK project since 2004

and also a helper at the doll stand in the Ethnology Museum in Berlin .

until 2017. She was a professor at the BNU in Lahore and

since 2015 a professor at the University of Cairo.



In her doctoral thesis she also dealt with the doll project in TKD.

Important passages from the dissertation are listed in the appendix,

e.g. who said what and why.

Read the thesis here

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Discovery Ride to Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka
Friday, August 2, 2024

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Explore traditional and unique doll village of Pakistan (Thatha Ghulamka Dheroka) in the “Discovery Ride with "Rafia Aslam.”

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Do you have love for others? How much?

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Dr. Leila Masson
Friday, June 28, 2024

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Dr. Leila Masson, a Lahori by birth, established the Village Dispensary in Thatta Ghulamka Dhiroka (Okara) back in 1992 as a part of her House Job after completing her medical education in Berlin, Germany. Now she is a leading pediatrician and lactation consultant specialized in nutritional treatment for children's problems with health, behaviour and development. Currently she is based in Sydney, Australia. Thank you Dr. Leila Masson (Siller).

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No Theory Without Practice
Friday, June 21, 2024

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Academic activity ruins the practice
Presentation by Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch at the FBTC 

Preliminary remarks

Due to space restraint, only core statements are being made here. The critic and the constructive thinker both recognize the explosiveness of the statements, but also the almost hopeless situation, because if mistakes are not understood and every effort for reform is rejected with justifications, future of all companies and organizations is destined to be futile. Recognition of the knowledge in later years will lead to gray hair and hair loss!

We can easily explain situations of the past and present on the "cultural model" and scientifically justify, even if we can never really predict.

Essential facts remain unrecognized even in this digital and global, but not the real world, which supposedly offers detailed viewpoints.

Researching here is understandable, even though it leads unknowingly to a tragic reproduction of errors instead of to a lasting solution.
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Senta Siller's Services to Society over the Last 75 Years
Thursday, May 23, 2024

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On the occasion of Senta Siller's 88th birthday in November 2023, the Friends of the SSDC in TGD have resolved to publish a memorandum in her honor.


This should not be understood as a homage to a person who always rejected such endeavors, but rather as an appreciation of an unusual idea, namely income-generating measures for people in rural areas, based on traditional culture and using local resources, and highlighting the selflessness of the project. This stands in complete contrast to the prevailing and increasingly growing global effort towards equalization of all cultures, discounting the fact that they are the real wealth of a country. Wealth, which is irrevocably lost in the onslaught of technology euphorics.

Senta Siller has worked in different positions and countries in the course of her life. In more than 75 years of activity, she has met countless people, a large number of whom can no longer be interviewed. In this writing, however, a few voices were able to have their say, in which they fondly remember their encounters with this unusual woman, not only in her doll-making projects.

Rarely do we meet people who are really unselfishly active for the benefit of society.

The present publication intends to stimulate the reader in the undertaking, in the sense of making a certain effort, even if everything else speaks against it, - all for the welfare of the general public, even if such projects, as initiated by SSi and implemented with the help of many volunteers, are directed completely opposite to the global and digital mainstream.

The editors would like to thank all the people, organizations, and institutions involved who have supported and continue to support the work and ideas of SSi.

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Health hut, kitchen garden and family-friendly work with arts and crafts
Thursday, May 16, 2024

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From the archive

The health movement initiated by Dr Leila* was continued by Dr Senta Siller from 1993 under the title One Baby-One Tree.


The women of the village who were involved in the handicraft project received a tree to care for at an event at the beginning of the school year with the handover of teaching materials for each child born and registered in the BHU. They became indicators of women's activities.

The village NGO's water project financed a deep well that made the tested water available to the villagers.

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To remember from the beginning
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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From the archive of AFA and DGFK

In 1991 the film Amjads Village (see Archive www.dgfk-archive.de ) was made by the DGFK e.V. and premiered in the Babylon Film Theater in Berlin. A young doctor, Dr Leila, was inspired to provide basic medical care in the village between 1991 and 1993.

Between 40 and 50 patients came to her every day!

Even after her departure (she lived in the USA, New Zealand, now Australia) she financially supported the emerging BHU (Basic Health Unit), now with its own building.

She was followed by Dr Elizabeth from Melbourne (she received an Australian Order of Merit), Dr Karola (she received a German Order of Merit), -

Three village girls traveled to Dr Ruth Pfau in Karachit to train as LHV. The nurse Marlis from Switzerland, who also worked in the Cameroonian subsidiary project and received a medal of merit there, continued to run the BHU.

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