Part 3

Craft charts

Aim – To list out various crafts of as many state of India as possible and find out about the
languishing ones.

Apart from taking information from internet and books a list has been prepared of various
authentic crafts available at various craft emporiums at Baba Kharag Singh Marg, Delhi.
Various crafts demonstrations have also been followed which were happening in Delhi at
this time.
 West Bengal
artisans Place/location Methodology status comments
/tools
Leather Artists at kolkatta leather reviving
craft santiniketan

Brass Metal Bankura, Engraving reviving

and workers bishnupur, work
Bell ghatak,
metal Midnapore.
pottery Kumbhakars Murshidabad, Rich,
(potters) Bishnupur, Alluvial clay
Midnapore.

Mats Cotton,
and Madur-
Basket reeds,
making Bamboo
frame loom.

Dokra Dhokra Lost wax declining Dhokra

Metal Kamar tribes Technique. tribes are
casting traditional
blacksmiths
of west
Bengal.

kantha Bengali Bolpur, Embroidery,

women Santiniketan. Running
stitch.

Scroll- Bankura,
Painters Purulia in
(The North West
Patuas) and Birbhum
and
Midnapor
 West Bengal

The Mask- Purulia Of Paper,

Makers Clay and
(Wood Cloth
Carvers)

Stone Burdwan
Carvers (Bengal
(Stone School of
Sculpturing) Stone
Sculpturing)
, Patun and
Dainhat
Madhya Pradesh

Madhya artisans Place/ Tools/ status comments

pradesh location methodology

Maheshwari Maheshwari maheshwar Charkha, Making a NIFT

saree weavers Handloom. place in the Intervension.
market.
Chanderi chanderi Hanloom, Has a place
saree Cotton and in the
Silk. market.
Jhabua Jhabua jhabua Cloth, Declining. NIFT
dolls, women. Thread, intervension.
Bead work. Buttons,
needles.
Pithora Jhabua men jhabua Vegetable languishing
paintings colour,
minerals.
Bagh block Bagh men bagh Vegetable NIFT
printing dyes, intervension
Block
prints.
Lac Rewa, Beads, Declining.
jewellery Indore Lac.
region.
 New Delhi
artisans Place/ Tools/ status comments
location methodology

Bamboo chikwalas Old delhi Sarkanda declining

work grass/
bamboo
Carpet Persian Old delhi handlooms lost
weaving weavers
(herati
carpets)
Kundan/ karigars Dariba enamelling Fighting for
meenakari kalan near its place in
chandni market.
chowk
Ivory craftsmen Old delhi lost
carving

Miniature Use of ivory Almost lost Mansoor

painting before. (endangered) (Mughal
Now on painter)
hand-made author of
paper. this school.
Paper craft Lal kuan languishing Other
bazaar crafts- tazia
Old delhi making,
effigy –
making.
pottery Uttam Blue glaze
nagar, pottery in
Bindapur, delhi
Kotla, declining.
Shahpurjat.
Zari, gota, Kinari Appliqué Reviving.
kinari bazaar work
zardozi. Old delhi
 Punjab
punjab artisans Place/ Tools/ status comments
location methodology

jootis Families Patiala, leather declining

devoted to faridkot
this craft.
durries Women of Nikodar, weaving
the village Jalandhar,
Hoshiarpur,
Anandpur
sahib
parandis Jalandhar, Have been
Amritsar adapted
Nikodar, according to
Ludhiana. contemporary
needs.
Hand Done by
Printing Chhimba

MudWall Leisure
Paintings hour house
(Chowk- occupation
Poorana) picked up
by young
girls from
the elders
Clay Toys (Reelo
and Pottery pehlwan- a
toy made
before pre
partition
Punjab)
 Punjab

Basketry especially
Peshawari
Pakkhe,
Kundaldar
Pakkhi and
Chhaj
Wood Work Batla,
(Peeras) Hoshiarpur,
Amritsar
Needle
Work
(Phulkaris)
Maharashtra

maharashtra artisans Place/ Tools/ status comments

location methodology

Kolhapuri kolhapur Camel, reviving

chappals buffalo skin

Carpet nanded
making

Warli Womenfolk Rice paste, Now being Belongs to

painting of the tribe straw made on warli tribe.
paper and
sold.
bidriware aurangabad Zinc and languishing Items were
copper used as
hookas or
paan daans
Paithani weavers Punjabi weaving declining Believed to
saris region be 2000
years old.

Narayan weavers sholapur Weaving decling Rudraksha

saris with zari motifs on
borders border.
 ORISSA

orissa artisans Place/ Tools/ status comments

location methodology

Patachitra Male Raghurajpur, Vegetable reviving Raghurajpur

and palm dominated Dandshahi, colours, has 50
leaf panting art. Also Puri. Cloth, families of
make Paper, pata
‘Ganjika’ tablets painters.
cards
carving Pathuriasahi, Stone, wood, declining
puri, porous roots
khandapara and stem of
a water
plant.
Metal work Puri, Brass, bell, declining
behrampur, silver
chandanpur, (tarkashi)
phulbani.

Appliqué Pipli village Stitching reviving Originated

work cloth on a as temple
base cloth art.

Ikat sari bhuvaneshwar Tie and dye reviving

technique,
yarn.
 ORISSA
Orissa
Bomkai sari

Bandha or
tie-and-dye
from
Sambalpur.

Pasapalli

Jhoti, Chita, mud walls

Muruja and floors
are
decorated
with murals
in white rice
paste or
pithau
HORN Parlakhemundi items like
WORK and Cuttack combs, pen
stands,
cigar pipes,
decorative
figures -
horn
articles
Tribal Of the sixty-
Combs two tribes
inhabiting
Orissa, 12-
15 tribes
know the
art of comb
making
 ORISSA

Lacquer Baleshwar mix it with

Work and colours and
Nowrangpur apply it on
Lacquer is small cane
the refuse of boxes made
an insect by tribals,
gathered by and
the tribals terracotta
in the figures
forests which they
make
themselves.
After
several coats
of lacquer
have sealed
the core, the
surface is
decorated
with motifs
borrowed
from nature,
geometric
patterns and
religious
symbols
Andhra Pradesh

Andhra artisans Place/ Tools/ status comments

pradesh location methodology

Handlooms Weavers eluru Oil, yarn, reviving Also are woven

make handloom, dharamavaram
chirala wax clay. silk sarees.
textile

Kondapalli Heriditary Kondapali Sawdust Declining Also called

toys craftsman district tamarind tella ponki
seed
powder,
enamel
gums, water
colours
Leather Nimmmalakunta Leather Declining Final products
puppets district (sheep and are usually
goats) paints mythological
characters

Kalamkari Masulipantnam, Natural Reviving

mangalgiriand colours and
dyes-like
alam, cloth

Nirmal Adilabad Declining Scenes from

painting Mahabarata
and Ramayana
Andhra Pradesh
Ikat Weaving Pochampalli, (each has its
Gadwal, own distinct
Kothakota, style)
Narayanpet,
Venkatagiri,
Dharmavaram,
Himroo
Narsapur thin threads
Lace and woven
with thin
stainless
steel
crochet
needles of
varying
sizes, the
exquisite
hand
crocheted
lace works
Lacquer craft Etikoppaka

Pembarthi Pembarthi
Sheet Metal village in
Warangal
District

Pearls HYDERABAD

Silver Filigree district of

Karimnagar

BUDITHI Budithi village creating

in Srikakulam beautiful
district shapes out
of alloys
Andhra Pradesh

Metal work Pembarthi Brass work Declining Flourished

(BIDRIWARE) during
known as kakatiya
BIDRI dynasty

Banjara needle Banjara Lambani Embroidery Declining Done by

craft women tribes
wanderers
and nomads
 Karnataka

Karnataka Artisans Place/location Tools/methodology Status Comments

Wood Craftsmen Mysore, Inlay-work, Declining
carving srirangapattna, painting and
shimoga, coating
kinhal

Metal work Bidar, Metal plates of Declining

nagamangala, zinc, copper, tin
mangalore, and lead
udupi

Needlework Tribal Embroidery Declining

women
 Bihar

Bihar Artisans Place/location Tools/ Status Comments

methodology

Madhubani Women Mithila Wall coatings, Reviving Done on

paintings of the natural paints walls of
village mud
houses

Bangle Mostly Muzaffarpur Lac, turnary Declining Cottage

making men industry

Sikki craft Sikki Sikki grass- Declining

women folk riverside
weed

Bhagalpur Weavers Bhagalpur Silk, handloom Struggling 30,000

silk looms in
Bhagalpur
 Tamil Nadu

Tamil nadu Origin Details Place/location Method status comm Purpose

of ology ents
artisans /tools
Uru boat endangered
making

Musical Thanjavur
instruments
 Gujarat

Origin Details of Place/location Methodology status comments Purpose

artisans /tools
Tangaliya Gandhinagar languishing
weave

Patola Patan Hand woven

textiles textile

Kathi Done by Saurashtra black cloth

Embroidery the women embroidered
of Kathi in crimson,
community violet,
golden,
yellow and
white with
greens and
blues.
Bandhini Believed to The Khatri Rann of Cotton, silk
have clan, most Kutch, or wool, red
originated artisans Jamnagar, oride(gheru)
in the area are Bhuj anjar
5000 years Muslims. and mandvi
ago. rajkot in
Saurastra
 Gujarat

Mashru “Mashru” Kutch A mixture of

weave means silk and
permitted cotton.
in Arabic.

Muslims
were not
permitted
to wear
Silk,
therby
these
shawls
had silk
finish on
one side,
whilst the
Cotton
finish was
next to the
skin of the
wearer.
Thus the
MASHRU.
 Assam

Assam Origin Details Place/ Methodology status comments Purpose

of location /tools
artisans

Muga silk Women Cachar Domestic Long

of Assam district weaving enduring
and silk,
Sualkuchi improves
(Silk with each
weaving wash.
centre)