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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Kalamkari-The Art of Painting fabric with a Pen-4

Well, Kalamkari art is used on saris, dupattas, scarves, stoles. Both block printing variety and hand painted are used. Chudidar or Shalwar Kameez sets are also being sold. Ready made shirts for men are also available. Apart form these, bedlinen, hand kerchiefs, fabric lengths are also available. patches and borders are also available in various sizes and still are popular.

The fabric is used as cover for books, dairies, folders, bags, and many others. I will post my collection but before that, here is something unique.

http://paperjewellery.wordpress.com/paper_jewellery/kalamkari-paperjewellery/

Jewellery made out of Kalmkari paper from Deepa Sekar. They are so pretty.

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Freebies

Desigg.com has offered many freebies on their site, like textures, backgrounds etc as EPS files, fonts, brushes and also some colourful illustrations for children among many others.

Please visit the site and browse through. I am not into these things so I don't know much.

http://desigg.com/category/articles/freebies/

Kalamkari-The Art of Painting fabric with a Pen-3

So far I have posted a brief sketch on Kalamkari, what it means, its origin and history and the process in brief. As they say a picture is worth thousand words and if it a video it is even more better. I am posting some videos here from YouTube.

The process of Kalamkari is very tedious time consuming and as I have posted earlier, it involves many stages. Just have a look here.

You can see how tedious and difficult this process is. In fact all hand looms involve a very careful and dedicated work. That is why I love and try my best to encourage them. The artisans work so hard and create master pieces, yet their lives are spent in misery, as they don't get paid enough.

Here Have a look at the design being constructed by a Master Craftsman. He is so skilled and deft.