Fida Hussain Baba from Srinagar’s Nawa Kadal area is striving hard to preserve the traditional handmade Pinjirakari work. In Pinjirakari, different designs are made by interlacing the wooden members (mostly deodar and walnut) and joining them with each other with minimum use of glue, same as in khatamband. Baba, who has spent around five decades in Pinjirakari work, laments its slow death due to the machine-made products. According to him only 5-6 masters remain who too are aged now. 95% of workshops have shut down with handcrafted pieces mostly bought by foreigners.