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Its another Indian arts known for and wide for its uniqueness and exceptional characteristic. The source of origin of this craft is from the Persian language in which 'kalam' means hand and 'kari' means craft or work. With the combination of these two words "Klalamkari" is constituted.

The art is to color and- paint the fabrics with imaginary scenes of nature and mythological epic, fairy tale and legends. The work takes account of painstaking  labor and meticulous expertise to brush the clothes with fascinating blueprints by their strokes of hands that fills colors to enchant thousands minds.

The process embarks on drenching the clothes in the emulsion of myrobalan power an buffalo milk to shun the diffusion of color in at over the undesirable area. Its necessary to soak the cloth in the decoction after applying the new color scheme to the design The color applied in this art is solely derived from the vegetables which are sold at the medical stores. Wide variety of colors are available in the market.

Before starting the printing works the fabrics goes into dousing with a black solution of jiggery of rusted iron and it is dried in the sun. The course goes on for at least 15days and ten it is treated with bee wax. Sketching of the out line begins by drawing with HB pencil or charcoal. Once the draft is completed would followed by the color filling job. A special kind of handmade brush 'Kunchaas' is used during the painting because it absorbs and releases colors coding to the artists intend. The creations reflects the legendary themes from the epics and folk lore illustrating scenes from the battle fields to dancing images, and creepers to nature and creature.


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