Traditional Indian Fashion Clothing & Jewelry: June 2008

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Home Decoration

Home is an extension of our personality and our taste. Your home may be as big as a castle or you may live in an attic room, it is your personal touch and your unique style that makes this space your home and you feel instantly comfortable and warm. Home decoration need not be an expensive affair but it does take a lot of planning to achieve the right look that you desire so much to convert a piece of land in your dream home.

Decorative Paintings

The hand-printing industry has important centres all over India. The most important cotton printing centres, which follow the traditional technique of printing, are found again in the desert belt. Here people specialize in the use of alizarin, indigo and a range of vegetable colours.

Decorative Statues

Home décor is a trend fast picking up in India. Home decoration in India has evolved into an individual profession as is now looked upon as a distinct creative outlet.

Sculptures

I have physically seen stone statues sold by ShalinCraft. These are made in a very unique kind of stone found in the state of Orissa in eastern India. These stones are harder than soap-stones, on which most carvings are made, but softer than granite stone. Orissa along with Khajuraho is known for temple sculptures that were created in 10th and 11th centuries. Stone statues sold by ShalinCraft seem to be inspired by those temple sculptures. Rajendra Misra, a young sculptor living in the town of Puri in Orissa, has created most of ShalinCraft statues. This sculptor was also awarded Medal by the President of India for his outstanding creations of sculptures.

Paper Mache Balls

Large decorative balls with winter time motifs in bright colors for home decoration..

The designs used in papier mache naqashi are very intricate and their application requires a great deal of skill and accuracy. The patterns are painted free hand. The naqash draws from the reeservoir of patterns and motifs in his memory.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Gift Ideas

Presents are always very precious. They tell your dear ones how much you care for them. And when a present speaks for you, you must choose it carefully. It should be unique that no one else but you buy for your friends and family. It must have some meaning, some traditional values and of course a saga of creation.

Gifts for Womens

All these qualities are met when you choose an Indian handcrafted present. For all occasions, you will be delighted that you gave them a piece of art, which was created diligently by some unknown talented hands thousands of miles away from them.

Home Decorator Gifts for Women

A gift that your friends and family members will treasure forever for its natural rustic look that delights the basic man and nature relationship. Gifts from India, essentially handmade by the village and tribal artists of the country are authentic and ethnic.

Home & Garden Gifts

A gift or present is the transfer of something, without the need for compensation that is involved in trade. A gift is a voluntary act which does not require anything in return.

Home Furnishings

Even though it involves possibly a social expectation of reciprocity, or a return in the form of prestige or power, a gift is meant to be free.

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Metal Craft Fine Art Sculpture from India

The Harappan figure of a dancer, with her carfree stance, is one of the first metal sculpture pieces of discovered in India. Even 5000 years ago, Indian craftsmen had mastered the art of casting. The large Buddha figure at Sultanganj is possibly by the largest surviving metalwork of ancient times and is a monument is possibly the largest surviving metalwork of ancient times and is a monument to the skill of Indian craftsmen in melting and casting metal.

The cire perdue, or lost wax process of casting, has been developed into a fine art in India. Images made for worship all over India were earlier made from an alloy known as panchadhatu, five metals. The metals were mixed in the proportion required for the image to be prepared.

Nowadays, however, bronze or copper and brass are used for this purpose. The art of metal casting as it has been traditionally practised to according to the Shilpa Shastra. Each image has its own proportion and the traditional metal caster known as the sthapati, caste the image according to what he learns from the Shilpa Shastra during his apprenticeship.

The basic form is first prepared out of wax and is then enclosed in clay moulds and fired. In the process of firing, the clay mould is created, the wax and is melts and leaves a hollow inside the mould. Hot molten metal is poured into the mould.

After the metal has cooled, the mould is broken open the basic solid caste image emerges. After this the image is finished with engraving and chiseling.

Swamimalay, Madurai, Mystore, Banglore, Karkal and centres in Kerala have distinctive styles.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Ladies Accessory with Tie Dye Print

The tyeing of cloth with thread and then dyeing it is the simplest and perhaps the oldest form of creating patterns on a plain piece of cloth.

Tie dye printed cotton Sari is made by the artisans of Rajasthan in north India. These are colorful, yet always light on body. Women wear tie dye print cotton Sari on informal and casual occasions as well as wedding dresses.

Shawls in tye and dye print give earthy and rustic look that many women are very fond of. These shawls go very well with jeans trousers and make great casual dress. The wool fabric is of a coarse kind since they pick up colors during tie dye process better than other fabric.

Scarves in tie dye print serve multiple purposes. It is an important part of the sundresses during summer season in India. It is light in weight and soaks sweat well. Colorful print on these scarves also makes them look very elegant.

Womens Casual fashion dresses shalwar kameez is the preferred dress for Asian women. School going teens to old age women, every one prefers shalwar kameez to any other form of dress. The dress is easy to wear. It covers entire body, looks graceful without ever giving feel of orthodoxy.

God Statues Stone Sculpture Collectible Figurine

The stone carving tradition in India is one of the richest in the world. Stone carving is an ancient activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone. Art of Stone Statues and Collectibles is the poetic expression of stone craft.

Sculptures of Hindu deities, modelled on classical prototypes, continue to be made in many parts of India. In Tamil Nadu such sculptures are made in granite. In Karnataka, exquisite figures carved in relief in black stone, with details engraved in fine lines, come out in greyish- white against the black surface. Softer stones are used in Orissa, which are easy to carve. The fully carved jali-worked, in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan, are most intricately done.

The artisans in Gujarat are engaged in the art of cutting and polishing semi-precious stones. One can see the life like images being skilfully sculptured in different varieties of stone across the state. In Jaipur, white marble is used for carving out statues of gods and goddesses as well as animal and human figures.

Collectible figurines from India for religious and inspirational purposes. Statues and sculptures of Hindu Gods and Goddesses, hand carved by some of the finest sculpture artists of India . All carvings are done in uniquely Indian style. Most of these styles were developed in 10th and 11th centuries, when many of India 's temples and sculptures were built. Get these religious and inspirational collectible figurines to achieve divine feelings at home.

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Silk Scarf Womens Accessory Made in Brocade

Brocade silk designer scarf are generally worn by Indian women on formal occasions. It has some extra shine coming from the metallic thread used in the fabric. The metallic thread provides some stiffness to the fabric and so many women also use these scarves as table runners.

Varanasi or Benaras, is today one of the most important silk-weaving centers. Originally it lay in the midst of a cotton-growing area and was famous for its cotton weaves. Today no other centre can compete with varanasi. It has perfected the art of weaving and there is no style of weaving, which it cannot reproduce.

The fabric of a scarf can be cotton, chiffon, georgette, silk, net or sometimes mixed too. These are integral parts of the salwar kurta, lehenga, and churidar. With cultural exposure from Europe, these scarves found their way to the western wardrobes too. A speciality of the area is the heavy gold brocade, which has an extra weft of rich gold thread running right across the warp threads, with the motifs picked up in silk thread and jewel-like colours worked in the style of meenakari, a term used for gold ename jewellery and here it is applied to wooven gold brocades where the rich gold patterns are enlivened by introducing silk threads very much like richly coloured enamel designs worked in gold.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Pearl Necklace Healing Beads From India

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Pearl Necklaces

ShalinFashions sterling silver necklace, gemstone necklace, pearl necklace, and other forms of fashion Jewelry Necklace. are handcrafted by the traditional artisans of Jaipur in Rajasthan. The Jewelry Necklace, whatever the style, chain necklace, bead necklace or choker necklace, is in unique design, often in antique reproduction style. Handmade necklace in silver and semi precious stones is inexpensive and is meant for every day wear. Buy necklace online and your order would be shipped directly from India.

Pearls: The quality of pearls found in different places varied. The pearls found in Paraloka (now in Kerala), were white or yellow, mixed with gravel and uneven.

Pearls from Swarashtra were just the right size and of the shade of butter. The Pearls found from the river Tamarparni (Tamil Nadu) had either a coppery hue or were white and lustrous. Pearls from Parasava (persian Gulf) are brilliant, white and very heavy. The Himalayan pearls were light, broken, large, dual coated and the colour of yoghurt. The Kaubera (not identified) pearls were uneven, black or white, light, brilliant and of large size.