treasure trove : Centre Street / Pune Lashkar

this is it! shop lined street
the top floors are(use to be ) the living quarters

stringing my "bhor mala", the options - glass or hexagonal silver poth/ silver tubes
poth are minute beads

silver poth looked the best

next door, these little girlies were getting a new set of earrings with their grandma

Centr Street/ Pune is one of those great old bazaars- this is more of a jeweler's street
very fascinating - old building, with wrought irons grills and window lattice,
very nostalgic
small time vendors, sitting outside shops, like this stringing expert - did my bhor mala
and this other "tanka"(soldering) expert, who also may doing piercings traditional style
yumm!! lots of silver and gold to ogle at

and also this cool cloth store - Haji A. Gani Hiroli
356 centre street Pune lashkar
established 1896
has wonderful handloom - checks wala pune suits and sarees, mangalgiri, south maharashtra and norht karnatic textiles, block prints, kalamkari, etc.
and incresingly lots of well packaged powerloom too :(

lashkar means cantonment