The name of Shital Pati is listed in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. The organization declared it on Wednesday.The conference of International Association to Preserve Intangible Cultural Heritage is going on in Jeju Island of South Korea. In the last episode of the conference the matter of Shital Pati, the traditional crafts of Sylhet in Bangladesh came in.A delegation team led by Secretary of the National Museum Mohammad Shawkat Nabi is taking part in the conference. Two renowned craftsmen of Sylhet region Gitesh Chandra and Harendra Kumar Das are in the delegation team. They are performing the weaving techniques of Shital Pati there. Moreover, high quality Shital Pati brought from Bangladesh is being displayed there.Earlier, Baul song, Jamdani weaving, Mongol Shovajatra got their places in the list of UNESCO. Besides, on 30^th October UNESCO recognized the 7^th March speech of father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the World Documentary Heritage.Once upon a time Shital Pati was very popular in England, France and Russia. It took its place in the British royal palace of Queen Victoria. Foreigners used to take Shital Pati of Balaganj from Sylhet along with Moslin of Dhaka as souvenir.Somebody also calls the traditional Shital Pati of Sylhet region as Nakshi Pati. It was also mentioned in our folk literature. The weaver of this Pati is called ‘Patial’ or ‘Patikor’.

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