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Terracota
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An
age old craft in Rajasthan saw dust, mashed and mixed
finely with mud and clay in a semi solid paste on which
the image is sculpted and later dried and polished in
colour retaining its natural hue, they make best of
decorative items with authentic ethnicity .
Every village and community has its potters, and the pots
for everyday use along with other storing vessels ,
hookahs, chillums, coin-banks ,pickle jars,etc...
Places where they made are:
Alwar: for paper thin kagji pottery.
Bikaner: known for its painted pottery tinted with
lac colours.
Jaisalmer: stone wares
Molela (near Udaipur): wall plaques generally depicting the images
of Heroes or the religious ones.
Pokaran: the potters make tiny bells with clay that
resound like their bellmetal counterparts. |
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