A beautiful piece of handcrafted elegance, painstakingly hand-knotted by women artisans helping them utilise craft-based skills and create handmade products. The craft form has been quickly adopted by women in various parts of the country as a means of sustenance and earning their livelihoods. Macrame as an art form was brought to the west from Arabic countries where weavers used several knotting techniques to finish the edges of woven tapestries, rugs and shawls with fringes.