There has been a focus on creating home and office spaces that reflect one’s personality. Be it the furniture or the more involved items like vases, idols or those niche products like Urlis suiting one’s tastes and mood. When these are handcrafted using a heritage craft, each product has a beautiful story to be told reflecting traces of India.
Dhokra is an art-form of making idols, figurines and other artefacts using brass through the famous lost-wax technique. One of the oldest known techniques for makings sculptures and figurines is the lost-wax method which can be dated to over 5,500 years. The Indus-Sarasvati civilisation, where the ‘dancing girl’, was discovered at Mohenjo-Daro, was one of the pioneers of making beautiful sculptures and figurines.
The Dhokra art-form, practiced in West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Odisha, is named after the metal-smith tribes of West Bengal -Dhokra Damar. These pieces display a rustic finish to them which gives a charm of it own against the regular mass factory produces decor accents.
Dhokra brass items include figurines of everyday people, animals and other artefacts like bells, candle stands, pen stands. Home and office spaces can be adorned with these artefacts that exude primitive simplicity. While buying Dhokra products not only are you helping in promoting a rich heritage but also helping in a more environmentally friendly planet and enabling a sustainable income for artisans.
These Dhokra accents come in various sizes making it apt for gifting as well as buying for your own home or office spaces. The pics shown in the blog post are from Krayaa.com
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