| KALAMKARI
PAINTINGS
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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