“I haven’t come across a culture, a country, a continent, or a people, who do not have dolls,” said artist Kristina Cranston. As I peered into her doll world, I noted a tiny yellow-beaded octopus bag ...
As you read this, two clay artists — Dinesh Mondal and Naresh Das — from Manmathanagar village in West Bengal would have begun the second half of their 40-hour train journey from Kolkata to Mumbai.
The exhibition hall is abuzz as visitors flock from one stall to the other. But Sunil Pal, a 60-year-old clay doll maker, pays little attention to the crowd. His eyes are fixed on his fingers, as he ...
Clay, terracotta, wood, shellac, dokra, jute, cloth — know about the various types of dolls in Bengal on World Doll Day Dolls made with jute, shellac and terracotta. If you are a millennial and have ...
Xiang Chenxi, a 27-year-old woman with progressive muscular dystrophy, makes a clay doll at the workbench in her home in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. [Photo provided to China Daily] There are different ...
Christmas is a busy time for doll makers of Vilacherry, a village 10km from Madurai. Business is good, they admit. MADURAI: Christmas is a busy time for doll makers of Vilacherry, a village 10km from ...
The Bengal Store’s curation has essentially been capturing the essence of Bangla since August 2019, be it with Bishnupur’s soft clay ‘Heem Putuls’, the Kanthalia dolls of Murshidabad or other ...
Every year as September gives way to October and skies turn a gloomy grey with the north-east monsoon waiting to make its wet and windy way into Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, Navarathri celebrations come ...
Xiang Chenxi, a 27-year-old woman with progressive muscular dystrophy, makes a clay doll at the workbench in her home in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. [Photo provided to China Daily] There are different ...
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