Shagufa Lucknowi Art

Shagufa Lucknowi Art is at Stall Number 29 in the Super Bazar. That’s in Santacruz West, quite near Bhagwan Cutpiece. If you know the station area, you know how crowded it gets. Our stall is just a small space packed with work from Lucknow. It’s a lot of embroidery and thread work. We have to hang things up high because there isn't much floor space. The bazaar is always loud with people bargaining and vendors calling out. It gets a bit dusty sometimes because of the open air and all the people walking through. We spend a lot of time folding and refolding the clothes. Lucknowi work is delicate, so we have to be careful. My father used to run a different stall, but we moved into this one a few years back. It’s a tight squeeze when we get a lot of stock in. We don't have fancy lights, just some basic tubes that show the colors well enough. People come looking for specific patterns, and we try to find them in the piles. It’s a lot of physical work, standing all day and moving things around. Santacruz is a good place for this kind of thing because everyone is looking for fabric. We just do our thing and close up when the sun goes down. It’s a regular life, nothing more to it than that. We just try to keep the stall tidy for the next morning. Sometimes we stay a little late if there are shoppers still around.