BHUBANESWAR: Kalabhoomi crafts museum hosted students of BJB Autonomous College at Jagamara here Tuesday.
The students explored the museum and engaged with crafts of the state. They also enjoyed live music organised by Ekamra Walks between 3:30 pm and 5 pm.
Deeptimayi Behera of BJB College said, “A craft workshop will be organised at our college soon courtesy of Kalabhoomi craftsmen. They will teach students palm-leaf painting and etching, dhokra art, metal works, stone carving, woodcarving, pattachitra, terracotta and appliqué work among others.
Mindtree’s Subham Dasani found the rarest collections of Sambalpuri, Kataki, Berhampuri silk, Bomkai, Khandua sarees, Tussar fabrics, along with appliqué works in the handloom section quite interesting.
Until now Kalabhoomi authorities have managed to bring together around 1000 rare handloom collections which include sarees, stall, and shirts among others. The Terracotta section of the museum celebrates around 215 terracotta and painted terracotta displays.
Traditional painting comprises of around 175 paintings, palm leaf engravings, masks and painted wooden toys, while the stone and wood carving has around 178 temple sculptures.
‘Metal crafts’ arcade comprises of at least 428 brass and bell metal, dhokra and silver filigree works. Similarly, around 204 exhibits consisting of paddy crafts, horn, golden grass, solapith, straw, betel nut, applique, cow dung toys and cane crafts have been exhibited at ‘Natural Material Crafts’ gallery while ‘Pre-Weaving materials and Techniques’ gallery exhibits the weaving process and materials related to it.
The ‘Tribal Art and Crafts ‘gallery has around 510 artefacts on tribal handloom, household goods, jewelleries and weapons while as many as 113 hand weaves of the state have been displayed at the ‘Handloom’ gallery.