Showing posts with label wood carving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wood carving. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Weaving or Embroidery Handicrafts and Wood Handicrafts of India

India is a country of arts and crafts. These are many arts and crafts are present in each parts of this country. In each state and geographical area these are some unique art or handicrafts are produced by local skilful artist or weavers. Weaving or Embroidery Handicrafts and Wood Handicrafts are two very beautiful and important crafts of India.

Weaving or Embroidery Handicrafts: Basically weaving technology mainly refers to the process of cloth production by using two thread sets. Theses thread sets are known as weft and warp crossed with each other. The traditional Weaving or Embroidery Handicrafts and Wood Handicrafts are mostly found in the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. “Bandhanis” is one of the famous form of weaving, are created in Jamnagar and Rajkot area. Bihar and Karnataka are very much known for their fine embroidery work. These arts are very much popular in India and also in other countries.

Wooden art available online

Wood Handicrafts:  Like Weaving or Embroidery Handicrafts, Wood craft is one of the most popular and important art of India. It prevalent in India even before the time stone sculpture came into existence, so these crafts are very old in India. Many types of goods are created by the skilled craftsmen by shaping a piece of wood with very simple tool. Mainly Gujarat, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala and Uttar Pradesh are very much popular for their unique form of woodwork. These wood crafts are also exported to furan countries. Many products like Axes, toys, utensils, decorative pieces, jewellery and many more designer household goods like lamp shades, candle stands, vermillion boxes, jewellery boxes, bangle holders etc are manufactured by Indian handicraft weavers, are very much appreciated in all over the world. These wood handicrafts are commonly used in almost every Indian house, so most of the Indian people like these products very much.


These are some things about Weaving or Embroidery Handicrafts and Wood Handicrafts ofIndia. 

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Nayak Patana - Blind Review for Art and craft in Puri District of Odisha

Nayak Patana is a famous village in odisha which is known for patochitras. If you ever visited puri beach in odisha, then you missed it. Do not do it next time, this famous village which named on famous artist Guruji Maga Nayak and just 15 KM from district head quarter.



Do not go with the poor look of the village, the artist here are heart touching and can make a piece of great art from simple palm leaves.

During our visit we lean that these artist family are so humble, they welcome us to their work places and show us their master pieces and even some of the upcoming patachitras.

There are 165 families leaving and apart from making patachitras, they engage themself in stone carving, wood art, paper macs, cow dong toys, lampshade and pana baraja.


Villages do all these art on day time and enjoy learning gotipua dance, krishna's rasa dance on mandaps at night with all groups. Very few person from their go for job to outside their village as most of them are not high educated, now some of the students started studying well and taking interest to join lucrative corporate life in metro cities. i do not know which life lead to happiness. 

Some of the known artist from this area are Maga Nayak, Maguni Das, Kalucharan Mohapatra and many more. Maguni das was awarded padmashree which bring glory for all odia.