Wood carving Andhra Pradesh India

Wood carving of temple chariots and royal residence passages is one of the most old conventional specialties that were honed in Andhra Pradesh. Elaborate work portraying Hindu fanciful stories and figures in extraordinary part have been cut in teak and rose wood.

Red sandal wood of Chittoor district a wood is utilized to cut out pictures of Lord Venkateswara and of the renowned worldwide Tirupati Temple. This wood is termite resistant and fire and is hard and flexible.

Jute Craft of India

The subtropical district of Asia, extraordinarily India, Bangladesh and China is most well known for Jute. Jute specialty is most prominent in this district and is inferred from the fibre of a reed like plant. The warm moist atmosphere of West Bengal with more than enough precipitation is best suited for this plant. The plant develops to a stature of 3 to 4 meters and takes up to six months to develop. Jute is the second most prevalent regular plant fibre and is accessible in richness. 

When the plant is primed for gathering, it is sliced quite near the ground and left in the ground for a day or two when the leaves tumble off. The cut plant is then consumed and plunged in water to divide the fibre from the plant. This methodology is regarded as retting. The, accordingly differentiated Jute is dried and given different structures. The filament is weave into strings. At times the strings are weaved to make clothes and materials. The cleaned fibre, the strings and the clothes all are utilized to make lovely art items like the packs, clothes, floor coverings, hangings, footwear, napk

ins, gems, show pieces, and so forth. Some quite fine quality jute is additionally used to make outfitting material and dresses. 

Items Available : Jute Jewelry ( Jute Earings, Necklaces, Pendants), Jute Wine Bags, Carry Bags, Coasters

Ganjifa Playing Cards

Ganjifa is an extremely prevalent word and other than India it is regularly known in Nepal, Arab nations, Turkey and Iran. Ganjifa means diversions identified with playing cards and card games. Ganjifa today is assumed control by the printed playing cards. The definitive Ganjifas showed exciting questions and showered the society workmanship painted by the specialists. Craftsmen have saved the customary craftsmanship probable and additionally the primary Hindu religious imagery. Ganjifas are quite wonderfully stuffed in the sliding boxes which excessively are quite masterfully created. 

Mughal Ganjifa : History says Mughal and Hindu ganjifas were extremely regular and had gotten all the spotlight. The present session of Mughal Ganjifa was presented by Akbar. The Mughal ganjifa conveyed eight suited ganjifa pack and had 96 delightful cards in eight suits of 12 cards each. The twelve cards in each one suit involved two court or figure cards and 10 numeral or pip cards. 

Dashavatara Ganjifa : The Hindu Dashavatara (10 incarnations) were distinctive in their structure and development. In the first request the amount of suits and cards were more which made the amusement entangled . The figures and the suit signs were regular to the Hindu players. Each one pack of ganjifa conveyed 10 suits, which showed one of the incarnations of Vishnu. 

The methods, preparing, outlining of ganjifa cards shifted from client to client. Artists included in making Cards for the rich and well off needed to utilize costly materials. They used to art on lac wafers, tortoise shells, ivory, engraved metal discs, mother of pearl and were enlivened with valuable stones and metals. Common man had ganjifas to himself on cowhide, paper, stylographed palm leaves, fish scales and paper machie. Today the ganjifas are sold as a specialty object.

Kalighat Paintings - West Bengal

The Kalighat paintings were exceptionally mainstream manifestation of symbolization previously. The popularity might be judged from the way that they were imitated by the German lithography on glazed paper and drenched which brought about the downfall of this work of art. There aren't any experts of the customary work of art. 

These smaller than expected people painted creations were made on rough hand made papers. The Kalighat paintings were essentially line drawings, the blueprints of which were made in strong single stroke with a brush. The fine art delineated everyday occasions of commonplace life. The sketches were exaggeration of the occasions which additionally incorporated far reaching adages and the maxims. The artworks used to be a vital media and a pictograph of rebellion. It was additionally a voice against the disasters of the social order.