🌺Kalamkari Art🌺
Kalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in Indian states of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. Its more than just being a fabric used for clothing or home. Its an experience that culture has witnessed over centuries.
Kalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in Indian states of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana. Its more than just being a fabric used for clothing or home. Its an experience that culture has witnessed over centuries.
This textile is supposed to be a multi-colored fabric in one of its rarest forms.
Kalamkari is known to be a healing fabric, as the colors, motifs and the narration of magical forms create an aura that heals an individual physically and spiritually.
Kalamkari is known to be a healing fabric, as the colors, motifs and the narration of magical forms create an aura that heals an individual physically and spiritually.
Only natural dyes are used in Kalamkari, which is an ancient style of hand painting done on cotton or silk fabric with a tamarind pen. The word Kalamkari is derived from a Persian word where ‘kalam‘ means pen and ‘Kari‘ refers to craftsmanship.
There are two distinctive styles of Kalamkari art in India – Srikalahasti style and the Machilipatnam style. The Srikalahasti style of Kalamkari, where the "kalam" or pen is used for freehand drawing of the subject and filling in the colors, is entirely hand worked.
Kalamkari has been around for nearly 2000 years in India.
This style flourished in temples centered on creating unique religious identities, appearing on scrolls, temple hangings, chariot banners as well as depictions of deities and scenes taken from the Hindu scriptures...
This style flourished in temples centered on creating unique religious identities, appearing on scrolls, temple hangings, chariot banners as well as depictions of deities and scenes taken from the Hindu scriptures...
...such as Ramayana, Mahabharata and Purana. The style owes its present status to Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay who popularized the art as the first chairperson of the All India Handicrafts Board.
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