Terracotta
Rajasthan's Terracotta tradition, dating back to the Indua Valley Civilization,
continues today in all parts of Rajasthan.
Utility items like jars, water-pots, urns, and utensils are prepared from unglazed
red terracotta and exhibit miraculous elegance despite their simplicity.
Images and plaques of Hindu delities, mounted warriors, caparisoned camels and
tiny lamps are to name a few of the popular terracotta creations.
An age old craft in Rajasthan saw dust, mashed and mixed finely with mud and
clay in a semi solid paste on which the image is sculpted and later dried and
polished in colour retaining its natural hue, they make best of decorative items
with authentic ethnicity.
Every village and community has its potters, and the pots for everyday use along
with other storing vessels , hookahs, chillums, coin-banks ,pickle jars,etc...
Places where they made are:
Alwar: for paper thin kagji pottery.
Bikaner: known for its painted pottery tinted with lac colours.
Jaisalmer: stone wares
Molela (near Udaipur): wall plaques generally depicting the images of
Heroes or the religious ones.
Pokaran: the potters make tiny bells with clay that resound like their
bellmetal counterparts.
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