The traditional shitol pati of Sylhet has
been recognized as the world’s intangible cultural heritage 2017 (the
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity). The recognition has been given today
on Wednesday at the twelfth session of the ‘Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)’
held at Jeju Island in South Korea.
With the help of Ministry of Cultural
Affairs, Bangladesh National Museum in 2016 raised the proposal to recognize
the traditional shitol pati of Sylhet as an intangible cultural heritage at the
12th session of the ‘Intergovernmental Committee for the
Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage’ of UNESCO.
The process of getting recognition for
shitol pati of Sylhet began since 2013. On December 17 of that year, the
decision to include shitol pati on the list of cultural component of Bangladesh
was taken at the ninth meeting of PMC in UNESCO’s ICH.
In this continuation, the plan to include
the art of weaving shitol pati as Bangladesh’s cultural component was accepted
on 4 January 2014. On January 7 of this year, “Department of Ethnicity” organized
a meeting to make a documentary on shitol pati from National Museum. Later on 16
January of this year, it was proposed to include shitol pati from National
Museum at the 10th meeting of the Program Monitoring Committee (PMC)
in ICH and in the context of this proposal, a cheque was received from UNESCO
for making a documentary on shitol pati of Sylhet on 29 January.
That same year, researchers were appointed
to prepare script of the documentary on Shitol pathi. On March 5 2014, the
researchers travelled Moulvibazaar, Sunamganj in Sylhet area to shot the
documentary. The documentary was sent for ICHA on March 30, 2014.
Later on 24 November of this year the file
was withdrawn for correction and on 28 September 2016, under the leadership of the
Director General of the National Museum, the corrected file of the art of
weaving traditional shitol pati was re-sent.
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