Indian Craft

Indian Encyclopedia
3 min readMar 31, 2020

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Indian Crafts have evolved over thousands of years. Various Indian crafts are

product of the skilled artisans and craftsmen of India. Indian Crafts are known throughout the world for their artistic work and grandeur.

The deeply entrenched tradition of Indian Craft echoes the true colour of India whilst impressing generation after generation amidst their varied forms and styles. For people around the world, India is synonymous to exotic arts and handicraft traditions.

Indian Craft tradition has no parallel in the world, in diversity as well as in technique

and use of materials.

Origin of Indian Craft

Indian Craft thrive to be the amalgamation of socio-political via religious influences that mapped India with the onward march of time and space.

Development of Indian Craft

Prehistorically Indian handicrafts were basically made for day after day use, the yearning for aesthetic application soon saw development of flooding designs and motifs.

Indian textiles, permanent dyes had their far flung supremacy in ancient India; silk was exported from India to Europe in the 6th century A.D.

Mughal era witnessed the patronage of brilliant artisans and craftsmen endowed with magical bliss and as a result Mughal carpets, ivory-bones-horns cravings and papier mache. Akbar, Shah Jahan, Jahangir invited he skilled artisans from all over the globe.

Forms of Indian Craft
Each states of India had its own tradition and legacy of handicrafts.

Whether the fragile beauty of the Phulkari art of the North India or the dizzying

artistry of the silver filigree work, famous in the eastern India, whether the colossal impact of the stone craft of South India or the artistry of the bidriware of the western India — all demonstrates the elegance and brilliance of Indian Craft.

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