Monday 31 May 2010

Handicrafts


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Handiarts is a site which is comprised of the diverse Indian cultures, lifestyles, traditions etc. have lent the most vibrant and exquisite designs to handicrafts. They come in a spellbinding variety of vibrant motifs and designs. The beautiful artifacts that have surfaced from the Harrappan and Mohanjodaro civilization sites reveal the artistic inclinations of the ancient man. Today, the same technique and crafts perfected over centuries continue to captivate the aesthetics of the modern person. Click through a variety of products that lend grace and beauty to your homes... or you, if you are wearing them through handiarts.com. We offer an unending variety of handicraft items, intriguing in its form and captivating in its beauty. The raw materials go through a number of processes, like carving, enameling, embroidery etc., giving expression to the craftsman's skills. Some of these crafts take months to prepare. Exquisite and vibrant designs combine to make the most artistic artifacts. Indian handicraft items are so coveted that they are passed on from generation to generation. Read on about the various processes employed in the creation of these exquisite crafts.

Warli painting, one of the most intriguing forms of Indian folk paintings, is a gift from a small tribe of the same name living in Maharashtra, India. Executed in white on austere mud walls, these tribal paintings are spontaneous expressions of folk life, customs and beliefs. Indian Handicraft Store is happy to present a unique online gallery of these treasured Indian tribal paintings.

A statue is a sculpture portraying a specific entity, generally a person, incident, occasion, animal or object. The primary concern of a metal statue is depictive and representational. Statues are generally built to venerate any historical event. Adding serenity to beauty, wholesale statues are perfect collectible items to decorate your home or workplace to bring life into your environment. Wholesale religious statues can add elegance on to your home décor. On the other hand wholesale Buddha statues can add sophistication to your office décor and also serves as lucky charms. Statues are available in a variety of metals and can be the reproductions of anything from classical Greek statues like the Venus de Milo to mythical garden gargoyle statues. Wholesale statues of Hindu Gods and Goddesses have been a central theme of Hindu Art since the 9th century and the beginning of the Chola Empire. The wholesale brass statues of Hindu gods are seen not as being an icon to worship but as the actual Hindu gods present within the metal statues. Bringing home wholesale religious statues symbolically means inviting a living Hindu God into your home and into your life. Buddha statues serve as lucky charms in your lives. Proportion and balance are very much needed to carve a statue out of any metal because any wrong proportion would not help in bringing out the delicate beauty of the religious statues. Thus not only the creator's imaginative power but also the concentration while pouring of the liquid metal into the mould is vital for carving a piece of delicate beauty.

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