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India is famous for its indigenous crafts in the world; it is also a centre of textile products, generating the maximum number of jobs after the agriculture industry. However, the Fashion and textile industry generates a lot of waste and add it to landfill. Using modern technology to combat these challenges is essential, but so is tapping into the wisdom of traditional practices and local knowledge based on ancestral communities. India has been using the concept of sustainability for many decades by recycling, reusing, or up-cycling garments and other textile products. Once a garment or fabric survives its function, it transforms into a new product, but with an artistic twist, such as saris/dhotis into blankets and textiles, and clothing into bags and other consumer products. Agra district of Uttar Pradesh is world-famous for its monuments, handicrafts & handloom. Among many, Durrie crafts is one of the popular crafts practised in a small town known as Fatehpur Sikri. Cluster is famous for producing two types of durries: Panja durries and Chindi durries. The Chindi durries named as the weft strips created by shredding cotton fabric, or leather strips termed chindi. A striking feature of the Durrie is warp cotton yarn, while the weft is unspun cotton (Chindi), giving Durrie a striped look. The Chindi durries are identifiable by their characteristic stripes in bold solid red, blue, green, and purple colours. The ethnography research approach has been followed for this study, researchers conducted field study in the cluster's location to understand the indigenous process of chindi durrie craft being followed and practiced by the artisans. It also involves the study of the tools and techniques used in the process based on primary and secondary data collected from the field, which further concludes with how this can helps in developing more varieties of products by using the Chindi craft and its future scope. Keywords: Craft, textile waste, sustainable practice, weaving, chindi craft