Art and Crafts of Madhya Pradesh

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Metal Craft - Brass Arts


 

The  ingenious metal artisanship of the craftsmen of Madhya Pradesh is famous.  Creative designs are curved into metals and shaped into figurines, ornamental  boxes and decorative statuettes. Metal ornaments boxes of Bundelkhand, rice  measure bowls and animal figure of Tikamgarh and Rajgarh region, lamps of  Sarguja are few examples of the creativity of crafts persons of Madhya Pradesh.  These metal images invested with odd home-grown socio religious history are  considered auspicious.These art effects known as Dhokra art or work are pre  dominantly hollow cast and are produced by the lost wax process.

Regions :  Bundelkhand Region, Tikamgarh Districts, Rajgarh  and Sarguja are major center for metal work in Madhya Pradesh.


Oranaments and Folk Jewellery


The  folk jewellery of Madhya Pradesh is most unique, highly creative, complex and  varied. The various cultural regions have their own unique styles. Jewellery  from Madhya Pradesh is available in a different variety of Gold, Silver, Bronze  and mixed metal. Ornaments which made by cowries, feathers and beads are piece  of tribal costumes. Tribal metal smiths habitually fashion ornaments by the age  old procedure of lost wax process, or cire perdue casting. For each technique,  there is a expert crafts person whose folks has been working this inherited  craft for over three to four generations.

Regions :   The  major centers of Madhya Pradesh for folk ornaments are Tikamgarh,  Sheopur-Kalan, Jhabua, and Malwa and Nimar regions.


 

Author : Read Rife

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