Thatta Kedona

Culture is a Basic Need

Greetings from the International Doll Museum in Flateyri
Monday, October 21, 2024

Welcome


Our dolls can still be admired. 


Dr Senta sorting and placing with volunteer Sabine and Sigga from the museum fund




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German Connections - Schimmel-Pfau-Siller
Thursday, October 3, 2024

Read the article here

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Senta Siller Books


The 21st booklet by Senta Siller will be published next year - a box for it is ready and can be seen in the picture.

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Skin Painting
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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

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

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

 

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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No Theory Without Practice
Thursday, July 4, 2024

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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Dr. Leila Masson
Friday, June 28, 2024



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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