Bengal Artisans
Empowering Women..........International Women’s Day, 8 March 2013
An artisan looking at her hand-carved Totem poles made of bamboo shoots at West Bengal State Handicrafts Expo 2012 at Milan Mela, Kolkata
India’s largest handicraft’s fair, an annual event displays the workmanship of the artisans of West Bengal, the neglected frontrunners of traditional art of the state.
Around 3000 participants from almost every districts of West Bengal display their art of jute, cane furnitures and baskets, handloom products, Totem poles made of bamboo shoots, 'Chhau' masks, wood carvings, wooden and clay dolls, Madhubani and other traditional paintings, sawdust art, terracotta, wooden and coconut shell artifacts and other home decors.
The traditional origins based on culture and mythology, the workmanships, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure simplicity and glamour bring an amazing experience to truly understand their talent.
The Expo spreads over an area of 82,000 sq. ft. and has incurred a total sales of Rs.859.00 lakh (£1 million pound) in the year 2010-11 and Rs.1076.63 lakh (£1.25 million pound) in 2011-12. It is the initiative of the Department of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises and Textiles, Government of West Bengal, organized every year with the aim to provide the artisans an exposure to the urban markets, know their taste and interact with the buyers or exporters directly, so that they can get orders for their products all throughout the year.
Beautiful Bengal, India
Bengal Artisans
Empowering Women..........International Women’s Day, 8 March 2013
An artisan looking at her hand-carved Totem poles made of bamboo shoots at West Bengal State Handicrafts Expo 2012 at Milan Mela, Kolkata
India’s largest handicraft’s fair, an annual event displays the workmanship of the artisans of West Bengal, the neglected frontrunners of traditional art of the state.
Around 3000 participants from almost every districts of West Bengal display their art of jute, cane furnitures and baskets, handloom products, Totem poles made of bamboo shoots, 'Chhau' masks, wood carvings, wooden and clay dolls, Madhubani and other traditional paintings, sawdust art, terracotta, wooden and coconut shell artifacts and other home decors.
The traditional origins based on culture and mythology, the workmanships, the richness of ideas, the brilliant combination of pure simplicity and glamour bring an amazing experience to truly understand their talent.
The Expo spreads over an area of 82,000 sq. ft. and has incurred a total sales of Rs.859.00 lakh (£1 million pound) in the year 2010-11 and Rs.1076.63 lakh (£1.25 million pound) in 2011-12. It is the initiative of the Department of Micro and Small Scale Enterprises and Textiles, Government of West Bengal, organized every year with the aim to provide the artisans an exposure to the urban markets, know their taste and interact with the buyers or exporters directly, so that they can get orders for their products all throughout the year.
Beautiful Bengal, India