 It's not there. I'll look for it later. I was looking for the horn. No. Go back to your stupid brain. Sorry, I just did drugs before this. I can hear the unsubscribing. Just you just hear it. The sound. Yeah, does it sound? Yep, it does now. I wish. I'll have to hear that. I just have a sound that comes out of here every time. Every time somebody unsubscribes. Ha ha ha ha. That'd be fun. But anyways, today we got a informational video. This is something. I would hope so. Read this. Unless it was like the Seinfeld. It would be information about nothing. Meet the last family keeping the 400-year-old Rogan Art alive. I didn't know that Joe was doing art. Did you? I knew he had a podcast. I don't know if we could call that art. Yeah. What is, what is? I will find out. It's 400 years old. You should know about these things, Corbin. Is that glass? Melted glass? Some of the hand is the essential tool for getting this painting technique just right. Rogan art is a centuries-old craft, and it's been an Abdul Qaifur Qatri's family for eight generations. These designs were once popular throughout India, but the rise of industrial textiles forced many artisans to leave the craft for more lucrative work. Today, the Qatri family members say they're the only Rogan artists left in the world. My grandfather, father, and uncle have come to visit us. But the COVID-19 pandemic is now threatening their business. We take a look at how one family has left this tradition still standing. That's insane. What is he doing? It all starts with passion. I've never seen anything like it. It's the base of the paint. And it's what gives the art its name. Rogan means oil in Farsi. Qaifur's cousin, Muhammad, heats the oil for two days until it becomes a honey-like texture. It's a dangerous process. Only a few can handle it. The oil in the oil can be fired anytime. So it's very dangerous. And for this process, all of our family members are not masters. Once it's cooled, Qaifur's nephew, Jabbar, combines it with pigment to create the paint. He grinds it with water from a rock and makes it look like paint. It's not like it's 100 grams of paint, 50 grams of paint. It's not like that. They come up from another rock. That color and paint are the same. Then it's time to paint. Qaifur says it's the use of the hand that gives Rogan art its unique quality. If you pick up the paint directly from the rock, you can't make it straight. Because it's very thick. Now you have to put it on your hand and corner and you don't have to rub it. Swirling the paint into his palm creates heat to pin it out. Then Qaifur floats the thread of paint over the fabric using a metal rod. He runs his other hand underneath the cloth to guide the paint. He has an idea of the final design in his mind. But the painting process is completely freehand. The entire thread, the perfect movement, how much it will pull, all the artists' minds are in it. You're being so precise. I have no idea. It's a gift from Umiya. It's not just a bus, it's not a machine's work. I believe that's astonishing. Before it dries, Qaifur folds the cloth to print the design's mirror image. He can finish some pieces in five days. While more complex designs can take him up to two years. Wow. Are you kidding me? Yellow color is kept from each corner of the cloth for which it takes a long time and it is considered special in itself. While art pieces like this one can cost over a thousand dollars. As they should. Qaifur and his family normally sell their pieces to tourists but the pandemic put a strain on their peak season. And we can still tell you that it's a loss. Because there are no tourists. So the business that depends on tourists and there's no source. So what should we do? We'll sit and see what's going to happen. What will happen? What should we do? The struggle feels familiar. The art is said to have come to India from Persia 400 years ago and it was once popular on bedding and ceremonial clothing here in India. But with the rise of mass produced textiles in the 80s locals lost interest in these more expensive handmade pieces. Many artisans couldn't compete with mass manufacturers and dropped their crafts to find other work. Qaifur too made the hard decision to leave the family business and look for work in Mumbai. First of all, I decided around 1980 that I won't ruin my own life in this art. And from what I've heard, this marriage was in front of the family. At that time, selling a boy from the village to Mumbai was a big thing, I think. But a sense of responsibility and a friend from his family brought him back. And if you don't come, the PD will close in the future. And I remember that time when I promised him that I will put my whole life behind this art. And I will try to make the name of this art and I can also say that the promise has been fulfilled. Since then, Qaifur has brought broken art to the international level. He's earned over 10 awards for his work and India's Prime Minister gifted one of his pieces to President Barack Obama in 2014. Oh, wow. And just as Qaifur learned from his elders, now his nephew is determined to carry on the legacy. I bet it was. He's committed to preserving broken art through education and social media. That's important because our family members are just so slow. So we're still giving them some training so that they can get some knowledge. Before the pandemic, the Qaifur family ran workshops. Since 2010, they've trained around 300 women and 20 of them went on to work for the family. But when COVID-19 started to spread in March, business slowed and Qaifur couldn't afford to keep them employed. Still, the family stays relevant with new products like face masks and they have big plans to expand the business. We also want a few designers like them, from India or anywhere else, who can help in designing so that we can explore them more out of India. Those sales might be slow until tourists can start visiting again. Qaifur believes he knows what it takes to be successful. You need patience for this art. But you need patience for the sale of this art. Okay, incredible. So do they have a website that you can go to? Instagram. They have an Instagram. Because I jump our Rogan. When I looked up Rogan art, Rogan... Okay, so that's the website? Mm-hmm. Let's see, I searched Rogan art. Oh, that's it. It's Rogan art, Nirona, basically? Yeah. That was, I've... That art form? Never seen that art form in my life. And it's absolutely incredible. What they can do. They're on Amazon? Workshops and training. Amazon... I don't know if they should... And you can get art form, covers who they are. Their story, they're on Instagram and Twitter. What you should do is... Works, galleries, about, there's nothing here. I guess there's a contact button. Yeah. I guess if you wanted to order something, you could. Yeah, there's a lot of shipping. Yeah, there's a comment section. So if you went to their website, which is Roganartnirona, N-I-R-O-N-A dot com, they have a contact page where you can get in touch with them and has their WhatsApp number, their email, and then a form you can fill out. If you wanted to either take their workshops or if you wanted to order some of their artwork, I'm sure you could probably do that through them. That's awesome. And you'd obviously have to pay for shipping, but that was incredible. Yeah. What you also do is do a TikTok of a short TikTok. Yeah. If they haven't done it. And so it would go viral. I wonder if they have that on there. I guarantee you if you put like, how you do it, kind of like just a quick... Yeah, they're on Facebook. Facebook. They're on Facebook and Instagram. He's old! YouTube and Twitter. I don't know, obviously. I'm just saying this is something I think if you made a good video. Yeah. Like, you can use... This is not medical advice. Let's see. Rogan art. Right there. There's some Rogan art on TikTok, but I don't know if it's this family. Buddy. No, it's not. No. I think it's this person that knows it. Yeah, somebody aware of it. Anyway. Support it. Yeah, go do it. That was awesome. Let us know more informational info. More informational videos like this that we can react to down below. Josh!