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Rajasthan Crafts
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Rajasthan is well known all
over the world for its hand-printed textiles, furniture, leatherwork,
jewellery, painting, pottery and metal craft. The use of lively colors
and flamboyant, fantasy designs is distinctive in all forms of arts and
crafts of Rajasthan.It will be unfair to say that Rajasthani artists
only make decorative items. Every household item in Rajasthan proves the
statement false as we go through their embellished utensils, colorful
attires, unique jewellery designs and embroidered shoes that infuse a
new life and a cheerful look to the otherwise monotone of the desert
sands.
Carpets
and Dhurries: Floor coverings like carpets, hand-woven durries and
namdas or soft woollen druggets of Rajasthan are exported all over the
world. Available in all sizes, the dhurrie is woven in Jaipur and also
in the rural areas of the state. Bikaner and Jaisalmer are known for
woolen dhurries made of camel hair. Bikaner is also famous for its
so-called jail carpets, which are so called for they were once made by
the prisoners in the medieval times. Much like Persian carpets,
Rajasthani hand-knotted carpets have geometric motifs and formal designs
with a border and central motif. The motifs have indeed been localized
and include peacocks and other local icons. Jaipur and Bikaner are
believed to be the pioneer centres in carpet weaving.
Antiques: Not all of the items in the handicrafts shop that you
find in Rajasthan can exactly pass off as antiques of course but still
their distinctive color and designs make them popular among the tourists
who buy them as souvenirs and as decorative items for their homes. The
large iron oil jars painted in the pichwai style, depicting the love
scenes, are just an example. Similarly, variety of kitchen utensils,
votive objects and even camel saddles attract attention of the visitors.
Fabrics:
Printed, dyed or embroidered fabrics of Rajasthan are known for their
unique hues and tones of color. Block printing, batik, tie and dye has
become a full-fledged artwork here. Each region has its own distinct
motifs, choice of colors, and the way in which these colors are used.
Bagru is known for earth colors and geometric patterns while Sanganeri
clothes have bright colors and floral patterns. Barmer and Jaisalmer are
famous for their batik or reverse printing work. Sikar and Jodhpur are
famous for intricate tie-and-dye or bandhani designs including chunari
(dotted), lahariya (diagonal striped waves) and mothra (large dots)
prints. Bikaner, Sikar and Jhunjhunu are well known for the mirror work,
embroidery and appliqué work that are used to embellish these fabrics to
produce elaborate designs of Rajasthani dresses.
Furniture
and wood carving: Rajasthan is an ideal place to look for
old-worldly doors and windows, wooden jharokhas, tables with cast iron
jaalis, side-boards, chairs, benches, jhoolas or swings and dressers,
sometimes fretted with brass and copper sheets for decoration. They can
be lightly carved or embellished with tiles. Jaipur and Ramgarh in
Shekhawati are popular centers for furniture but Jodhpur gets the first
place. The notable places are Shekhawati and Bikaner for traditional
woodwork, Jodhpur and Kishangarh for painted wooden furniture,
Shekhawati, Bikaner and Ramgarh for delicately carved wooden doors,
Barmer for woodcarvings such as images of gods and goddesses, elephants,
parrots, human and animal figures, Tilonia for leather-embroidered
chairs of Tilonia and Shekhawati for carved-back, string-bottom chairs.
The most remarkable and finest type of artwork belongs to Bikaner. Known
as Gesso work, it is made using the inner hide of the camel, which is
scraped till it is paper-thin and translucent and is then molded into
various forms of lampshades, hip flasks, perfume phials or vases.
Pottery:
The different regions of Rajasthan have distinctive style of pottery.
Jaipur is famous for its blue glazed pottery that doesn't use simple
clay but ground quartz stone, fuller's earth and sodium sulphate.Terra-cotta
pottery is also quite popular in Rajasthan. Molela, a village near
Udaipur is specialized in making clay images of deities for ceremonial
occasions. Alwar is known for its paper-thin pottery while Bikaner's
painted pottery is tinted with lac colors. The white and red clay
articles of Pokaran are marked with distinct geometric designs.
Leather
ware: In Rajasthan, jootis (the embroidered footwear the people
wear), saddles, bags and pouches are not the only objects made out of
animal skins. The other uses to which they are commonly put are making
backs of chairs embroidered with woolen motifs. The leather is beaten,
tanned and dyed and patterns are made on it by punching and gouging it.
Later it is studded and sequined for effect, and embroidered and
stitched to create the special jootis (slip-on shoes) that have become a
style-statement. Jaipur and Jodhpur are famous for these 'jootis'.
Metal
Crafts: Started off with embellishing the royal armor, the metal
crafts of Rajasthan now adorn tabletops, wall plates, flasks, silver
animal figures, caparisoned elephants with human figures over a howdah
(a musical instrument). Jaipur, Alwar and Jodhpur are famous for their
metal wares such as brassware and enameled, engraved and filigree
cutwork on silver.
Paintings:
Miniature paintings, portraits, courtly paintings, murals, paintings on
cloth and furniture, henna body art, domestic paintings and mandana (the
art of decorating houses) are just of the various form of vibrantly
colored and intricate Rajasthani paintings.Mostly the paintings depict
scenes from Ramayana, Krishna Lila and the Gita Govindam and use rich
colors that were made using minerals, vegetables, precious stones, conch
shells and metals like gold and silver. Jaipur, Jodhpur, Nathdwara and
Kishangarh are important centers of such paintings. Other remarkable
styles are phads or scrolls with the tales of the folk-hero Pabuji and
the pichwais of Nathdwara near Udaipur, that depict scenes from the with
life of Lord Krishna and are often decorated with precious stones.
Puppets:
Painted wooden heads, hands made simply by stuffing rags or cotton
into the sleeve of the dress, with painted expressions, arched eyebrows,
mustache for men and nose ring for women and large expressive eyes on
their face, puppets are draped with dresses made from sequined old
fabrics. They are extremely popular as inexpensive mementos among the
tourists.
Stone
Carving: The forts and palaces and beautiful havelis of Rajasthan
are all superb examples of the exquisite mason work of the state.
Dholpur near Bharatpur and Barmer are popular for panels of frescoes for
buildings, large statuaries, planters, and intricately carved elephants
and horses as garden sculptures. White marble statues of deities are
considered to be a specialty of Jaipur..
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