{"slides": [{"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Tussar: the crumbling cocoon", "src": "/media/original_images/Image_2_AQrPehH.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/Image_2_AQrPehH.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p>Cocoons\nfrom the forests of Chhattisgarh and Odisha are considered to be of better\nquality than the local cocoons of Bihar. They yield more silk and have a\nbeautiful copper-golden hue</p></div>", "album_description": "<p><i>The generations-old skill of weaving\u00a0tussar\u00a0silk in Banka district of Bihar is vanishing because of low returns, a lack of state support and cheaper imports. Only a fourth of the households in Katoria village now weave. 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Only a fourth of the households in Katoria village now weave. This album documents some stages of their work\u00a0</i><br/></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/tussar-the-crumbling-cocoon/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "07 Jul,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/Image_3_AmmscTd.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Tussar: the crumbling cocoon", "src": "/media/original_images/Image_4_Umz2uXC.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/Image_4_Umz2uXC.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Threads from over seven\ncocoons are rolled together using rice starch on the thigh to make the yarn</p>\n\n</div>", "album_description": "<p><i>The generations-old skill of weaving\u00a0tussar\u00a0silk in Banka district of Bihar is vanishing because of low returns, a lack of state support and cheaper imports. Only a fourth of the households in Katoria village now weave. 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Only a fourth of the households in Katoria village now weave. 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Only a fourth of the households in Katoria village now weave. This album documents some stages of their work\u00a0</i><br/></p>", "url": "/pa/albums/tussar-the-crumbling-cocoon/", "slide_photographer": ["Shreya Katyayini"], "image_captured_date": "07 Jul,2017", "slide_location": "Banka, Bihar", "track_id": "", "embed": "", "carousel_html": "<img src=\"/media/images/Image-15.height-876.jpg\" />"}, {"type": "image", "show_title": "True", "album_title": "Tussar: the crumbling cocoon", "src": "/media/original_images/Image_7.jpg", "src_resized": "/media/images/Image_7.height-876.jpg", "description": "<div class=\"rich-text\"><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now though,\u00a0 cheap Korean and Chinese silk is replacing\nthe popular <i>tussar</i>\nwarp</p>\n\n</div>", "album_description": "<p><i>The generations-old skill of weaving\u00a0tussar\u00a0silk in Banka district of Bihar is vanishing because of low returns, a lack of state support and cheaper imports. 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