handi-crafts.com > Menu








 Home > Crafters Zone > Paper Craft


Egyptian had initiated  devising  something  which to be used writing, drawing and painting while the Chinese had left no stone unturned to invent the paper. By the passage of time, the thing put across to the rest of the world when craft exchange and international trade had taken in. Paper is a material made of  thin layers of pulp of the wood. And papier-mâché is paper pulp molded in to boxes and trays. Bark paper  also falls under this category. The materials are used for drawing,  painting and making decorative products and lovely hand crafted  items  and others which are believed to  used in rituals and ceremonials costumes in many countries and states. Paper crafts have attained an incredible place in the market for its  demand by the people. Its true one could not expect that a man could earn more then his livelihood by selling paper craft in the market. Now the time has changed as business of papier-mâché is in boom and the products holds a good demand in the market the  artists and vendors are  earning handsome remuneration and good returns by this business day in day out  around the year. The most popular paper crafts at this time of moment is  the greeting cards. These are  uniquely designed by the artists who use many natural colors to paint the papers in to effervescent colors. the colors they use are obtained from the sea.

More to surprise it is used to make garments besides the articles like fans and dolls and many wonderful things which could lead viewer to  the  illusion to think them made of  otherwise.

Origami

The craft of folding a single paper in to an intricate  and zapping design is origami.  The name of the art is derived form the Shinto words 'oru' and 'kami' which means to fold  and paper respectively. It is an unique crafts worked on the paper. It is one of the simplest art his is an easiest way to express a persons artistic disposition. Folding  of paper which could be under taken by any person regardless to age  and sex. Taper in to different appreciable  shapes and sizes is origami. The  art is believed to be began towards the end of sixth  century. Firstly it was practiced by the Chinese who used to create many article for performing various  rites and rituals. Later on it was transmitted to Japan by the Buddhist monks and then it spread across the world soon after the craft exchange come to pass. It was widely  adapted by the people to make  the  geometrical icons and mathematical solutions. The art was flourished in in the late twentieth century when the technique and skill expertise by several artists form different countries when they  had taken the art afar form the traditional motifs.


Advertisements





Also visit our affiliated portals
www.unnatiinfotech.com | www.handlooms.com | www.directoryhospitals.com | www.directorydoctors.com | www.thirumala.com www.vaishnavdevi.com | www.jagannathpuri.com | www.yamnotri.com