Photo Essay: Kashmiri Kalamkari

Photo Essay: Kashmiri Kalamkari

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Muzzafar Hussain Sheikh, a 45-year-old Kashmiri craftsman, is among the few artisans in the Valley known for Kalamkari.  In Paper-Mache Kalamkari, artisans meticulously draw floral designs on wooden surfaces using different colours and brushes, giving it a look similar to that of paper-mache design, which is formed on mashed soaked papers.

Kalam implies ‘pen’ (or brush) and Kari means ‘art’, a name given by the Mughals when they discovered the art during their reign over the Deccan region. Only natural dyes are used in Kalamkari. Muzzafar Hussain and his co-artists produce paper mache designs on various artefacts made of wood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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