Tag: handicrafts

Alphabet

Several years ago, my uncle gifted me a bead loom kit. Seeing the actual tools used to make bead jewellery got me excited. I couldn’t wait for my holidays to start using it. My mother and I read through the manual and she assembled the loom. I drew out an elaborate design on the drafting paper provided with the kit and had begun imagining a bracelet on my wrist!

It was only once I had drawn the grid for the design of my bracelet and begun weaving each individual bead into the loom that I realised the effort that is involved in beading.

I have always found it difficult to haggle with street vendors selling these kinds of bracelets. Having tried it out myself, I don’t even think of negotiating.

This one with my initial is one of the handful of bracelets I weaved on the loom.

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Tags beads, DPchallenge, grid, handicrafts, jewellery, loom, photo

Musings

Masterpiece

Wishes with Love!

We had received several gifts at the family gathering. All the gifts were wrapped up in glittering and colourful wrappers, and we looked forward to unwrapping them!

As I began unwrapping one of the boxes, the note on top of the wrapper caught my attention. It was the prettiest little label I had seen and wondered why someone would squander money on just a label. As I took it out, I noticed the back of the card.

I examined it closely. There were pencil lines at the back of the note. I looked closer, and there was a little slit on one of the edges. The overlapping paper had an uneven edge.

‘It’s hand-made!’ I screamed with joy.

I do not remember the colour of the wrapping paper, or even the gift inside. But I loved the name tag, and kept it along with all of my other treasures.

It could have easily been something bought from a stationary shop, but it wasn’t. It could have been just another label. But it wasn’t. I loved how someone had taken the pains to make something, and that is why it qualifies as a masterpiece!

Weekly Photo Challenge : Masterpiece

PS. The name was digitally removed!

Tags hand made, handicrafts, paper

Miscellaneous

Dastkar – A Craft Lover’s Paradise!

Post author By Kasturika
Post date Monday, 29 October, 2012
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Jewellery

If you’re in, or around Delhi, or are likely to be there any time soon, stop reading this post, and go see it for yourself! Dastkar, the nature bazaar, is on till the 9^th of November 2012.
The colours, textures, sights, sounds, and smells… there is something for all the senses.

I visited the bazaar this past weekend, and it was an absolute delight. I saw first-hand, the art forms I had hitherto only read about, and learnt the existence of many more. This mammoth gallery, is only a small part of the whole experience.

Hope you enjoy!

Rug

DIY kits for almost every Indian art form – and more

Stalls in the Bazaar

Managing the stall

Hiding behind the decoration, to take photographs!

On display

Purses and Wallets

Jewellery

Kerala Murals shrunk into pendants!

Hanging Colours

Camel rider statue – these were there everywhere!

Mats

Potter at work – A workshop in progress

Kurtas and Kurtis

Elephant Dung products – no kidding

Wall hangings

Files, folders, notebooks

In tandem with the beats

Mizoram Bamboo Dance

Banboo Dance concluding

Bags

Baskets galore

Even more hangings!

Embroidery

Coir Nest

Kalamkari

More colours

Textures and colours

Outside the food stall

Jugaad – the name says it all!

Cheeky camels

Baby Ganesha – they were really small, and really cute!

Some more decor!

Quilt

Quilts

Tree on cloth

Framed

Happy!

Brushes and Pencils - Some New, Others, Not So

The theme for this week’s ‘Weekly Photo Challenge‘ is happy. The gallery below includes photographs of the bag I bought at a handicrafts bazaar, and an assortment of pencils and brushes – some unused, and some very old!

Unfortunately, the photographs didn’t quite turn out to be the way I wanted them. Here are some images I managed to salvage. Hope you enjoy!