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Kalamkari
is an exquisite ancient craft of painted
and printed fabrics. Kalamkari literally
means, Kalam - pen & kari - work, i.e.,
art work done using a pen. The artists
use a bamboo or date palm stick pointed
at one end with a bundle of fine hair
attached to this pointed end to serve as
the brush or pen.
Vegetable
dyes are used on cloth to color the
drawings. The dyes are obtained by
extracting colours from parts of plants
- roots, leaves along with mineral salts
of iron, tin, copper, alum, etc., which
are used as mordants.
Kalamkari
Painting widly consists Hindu
mythlogical themes from epics like
Ramayana, Mahabharata, Srimad Bhagwat
and Puranas. The unique thing about
these painting is that no two panels are
similar. Vegetable and mineral pigments
are used to create these paintings. The
specialty is that the finished products
are mellow. Bright colours are used but
the finish is not gaudy.
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Kalamkari Paintings
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