Issue #10, 2023 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Although we are a team of transportation designers we ventured into the […]
Earthen Tunes – The Vision
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Desi Oon-Revival of indigenous wool fibre
Issue #10, 2023 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Background Sheep all over the world have been selectively evolved to grow […]
Ganjifa/ Playing Cards of Maharashtra
Games are a common passion, a common pastime which cross all sections of the community. Playing or watching games form a highly significant aspect of culture, both because of their importance in peoples lives and their capacity to bring families and communities together and because of the degree of creativity and skill that go into […]
Artistic Broom and Mat Weaving from Madhya Pradesh
Broom-making is an extremely relevant example of using specialised craft skills to create items of everyday use – of the merging of utilitarianism and craft technique and skill in the artisans’ hands. Broom-makers from village Kamedh in Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh, like the family of Sharada Verma, have been making brooms – from the leaves […]
Idols of Pen, Raigad District, Maharashtra
God is Omnipresent. Quite literally in Pen. Everywhere you look in the quiet by-lanes of Pen, you see idols of the Hindu God of Luck and Prosperity, Ganesha, in various stages of production. Watching you from the parapets of houses while waiting for the the paint to dry; peeping through the windows, while the artisans […]
Warli Paintings
Introduction Warli has been described as the art of the living. Unlike other folk traditions, it depicts not epics nor mythologies but the daily struggles and successes of the warli people, their lives dictated by climatic and seasonal changes. Austere in appearance, of stark palette, the paintings are neither. They are joyous and energetic, a […]