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Arts and crafts of Haryana are very
famous and especially pottery is a well-known village craft.
Haryana being a village state, even
today the kick-operate type of wheel is commonly used.
They make intricate designs on the
finished vessel and for them clay is the most important ingredient. A
seasonal festival calls the potter to make hundreds of toys such as
cows, houses, horses, people and sepoys.
The Haryana arts and crafts include
embroidery and weaves. The women wove shawls, robes, dhurries and
lungis.
They do the work deftly and the
intricate designs are very beautifully woven and that too at a great
speed.
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Phulkari is one of the arts and crafts of
Haryana that the female members of a house do. This takes a longer
time. Traditionally, the Phulkari work commences when a daughter is
born.
This is done to be given during her wedding.
The stitching of Phulkari has vertical and horizontal pattern with
variations. Satin and silk is used to enhance the effect. Haryana arts
and crafts include Bagh, a typical geometric pattern.
These designs have elephants, crops, houses,
sun, kites, moon, gardens, and literally everything. This work is done
on coarse cotton cloth called khaddar using silk thread.
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The Haryana arts and crafts include
dhurries which are rather coarse. The Haryana jats are specialized in
making durries.
Haryana is a rendezvous for invades,
various tribes, cultures, faiths and race and can be witnessed in the
painting styles.
The Persian style gains prominence
and is linked with murals. Mughal paintings also sneaked in the Hindu
temples, especially in Rohtak, Kaithal and Kalayat.
The arts and crafts of Haryana
included sculpture which was concentrated around the northern and
central parts of Haryana.
In ancient Haryana, gods were the
basis of sculpture and besides the Hindu gods, Jain images were also
sculpted of sandstone.
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The Buddha surfaces in Rohtak and is made of
grey stone. Haryana arts and crafts also include Chope. This is a kind
of Shawl that is simple relatively to the Phulkari and bagh.
The Chope is gifted by her maternal
grandmother to a new bride. The darshan dwar shawl is a type of shawl
that is gifted by a devotee to a temple when his wish is fulfilled.
The arts and crafts of Haryana are mostly
done by women only and their handwork is quite popular. Tourists coming
to Haryana do not miss such an opportunity. They insist on buying
handmade things as souvenirs.
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