{"id":14671,"date":"2016-01-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/01\/14\/a-4000-year-old-craft-finds-its-way-from-bastar\/"},"modified":"2016-01-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T12:00:00","slug":"a-4000-year-old-craft-finds-its-way-from-bastar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/01\/14\/a-4000-year-old-craft-finds-its-way-from-bastar\/","title":{"rendered":"A 4,000-Year-Old Craft finds its Way from Bastar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/a-4000yearold-craft-finds-its-way-from-bastar\/article8094759.ece?ref=tpnews\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KERALA, INDIA, January 12, 2016 (The Hindu): The Kerala Folklore Akademi at Chirakkal here has come alive with the exhibition of techniques and craft of a style of metal casting that survives among the tribal people of Bastar in Chattisgarh. Called Dhokra, it is apparently the earliest known method of metal casting. A group of 10 Dhokra artisans from Bastar is camping in the Akademi for the live display of their traditional bell metal casting technique as part of the 10-day metal casting workshop being organised by the Akademi. &#8220;Dhokra is a traditional tribal bell metal artwork using layers of wax,&#8221; said Bannu Ram Baidh, a master craftsman of the visiting team from Bastar. The craft also supports the tribe&#8217;s livelihood, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The work begins with the making of a clay core which roughly resembles the product. The clay core is then covered by a layer of bee&#8217;s wax and the sculptor carves out the shape. It is then covered with a thick layer of clay. The wax melts when the clay is cooked and thus forms a mould to be filled with molten metal. &#8220;Dhokra work is a combination of art and craft,&#8221; said Akademi vice-chairman Suresh Koothuparamba, who is an artist himself. It is a 4,000-year old tradition of metal casting, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Akademi secretary M. Pradeep Kumar said that the ongoing Dhokra workshop is being hosted by the Akademi to introduce to the people in the State a cultural legacy of the people of Bastar that still continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source KERALA, INDIA, January 12, 2016 (The Hindu): The Kerala Folklore Akademi at Chirakkal here has come alive with the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}