Hey guys,
I'm writing a blog for the first time
ever and I'm pretty excited about it. So I'm a student in pearl academy of fashion and this blog is basically based on my college module: Introduction to Design Tools
and Techniques where we were given few topics like Indian-crafts,
International-crafts, Folk-arts, Tribal-arts and Design Movements, in which we
had to do a lot of research and had to visit places to gathered as much information we can get. So in order to do that we visited a couple of places.
Day 1 we went to Crafts Museum
located in Pragati Maidan (New Delhi). It was my first visit there and I had no
clue about how it was going to be and I was very excited to go there and
It was an amazing places to see different types crafts and arts of India, one
can actually learn a lot about Indian arts and crafts, tradition, religion and
various other things. When I went there I saw some really interesting stuff. I went to a place where there was small courtyard with different types
of houses in different states of India and it was such a great experience to
see so many different cultures under one roof. As I move forward to see more, I saw that some people were dancing, singing and playing instruments of their
region from where they belong and when I went to them asked about the dance and
where they came from then one of them answered that they are from Odisa and
this form of dancing is known as Ghumura, a tribal folk dance performed on a
folk music. Then there were shops nearby of different states from Gujarat,
Rajasthan to Kashmir to Assam and many more. Moving ahead from there I went to
the gallery where all the arts and crafts were displayed, there was appliqué
and patchwork of Gujarat, bandhani (Tie and Dye technique) and mirror work of
Gujarat. chamba rumal of Himachal Pradesh, kashida and jamwar (techniques &
style of Embroidery) of Jammu and Kashmir, bhandhej of Rajasthan, patola sarees
of Gujarat, brocade and silk sarees of Banaras, zardozi embroidery of
Uttar Pradesh, Phulakri embroidery of Punjab, this was all what I saw in the
museum but there are many other interesting things kept there and one should
must visit it and it’s an amazing experience.
On Day 2 we went to Dilli Haat, unlike the
crafts museum I have visited Dilli Haat so many times and shopped a lot, but
this time it was different I went there with a pen and a notebook in my hand,
and when I start looking at the things I realized that I had never observed them in
detail before. Whenever something caught my fancy, I used to buy ut without
understanding the details of it, so it was completely a different experience to
go to Dilli Haat to research. So I explored it and learned a lot and took a
lot of pictures.
People were selling different textiles, crafts, paintings, accessories and many other things, I saw some
really different things there which caught my attention as I never saw before
like I saw mosaic lamps with embedded colored glasses of Jaipur Rajasthan,
handmade grass baskets and kitchen utilities of Mirzapur Uttar Pradesh, there
were handmade bells which is made by the mixture of five different metals and
it was from Kutch Gujarat, then I saw some bamboo craft hanging from the
ceiling so I asked the shopkeeper about them, he said they are handmade bamboo
lamps from Odisa and they use bamboo strips and weave them all by their hands,
then there was blue pottery of Delhi, after that I saw some people making
different things there, at first I saw a potter who was making clay pots. Then
there was a man painting on cow which was made up of paper Mache and the craft
was from Bhopal, then a man was making shoes (jutti). Then I found a group of
people from Rajasthan performing kalbeliya folk dance.
Then there was an interesting event going
on India-Iran craft interaction, where there were many interesting Iranian
crafts and textiles were present and many craftsmen were making and
demonstrating the techniques of different crafts and arts, they were
demonstrating Iranian calligraphy art, block printing of Iran, handmade carpet weaving.
That event was basically showing the
similarities between the techniques of making crafts and textiles between the
two country the only thing which differs in the crafts was there culture and
traditions otherwise both the countries are using almost similar
techniques in there crafts and textiles.
So these were the two visits where we got
a lot of knowledge about the Indian and international crafts and arts, after
that our step two was to choose one thing from the five topics which were given
to us. So I researched about them a little more then I finally decided that I m
gonna work on kalamkari painting and block printing of Andhra Pradesh because I
found it very interesting as it includes both painting and block-printing techniques which makes it different from other block printed arts so because of that I chose it as my topic.
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