Ramayana theme kalamakari painting with telugu description across painting in my collection sharing today on International Mother Language Day

On the occasion of "International Mother Language Day" today sharing herewith one  beautifully illustrated big size "Ramayana theme" kalamkari painting which is in my collection. The kalamkari artist drawn in this painting from the scenes of Birth of Lord Sri Rama and his brothers to their marriage. Alongwith beautiful illustrations of Ramayana artist in this painting beautifully written every scene in traditional telugu language in old style by illustrating every scene. Like this in my collection i have some other kalamkari paintings with their illustrations in telugu language.

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"Ashta Vinayaka (Ashta Ganesha)" kalamkari paintings in my collection.

These are two different "Ashta Vinayaka (Ashta Ganesha)" kalamkari paintings in my collection.

A Woman carrying water pot in her head kalamkari painting in my collection.

This is "A Woman carrying water pot in her head" kalamkari painting in my collection.

Sri Rama Pattabhishekham kalamkari painting in my collection

This is "Sri Rama Pattabhishekham" kalamkari painting in my collection.

Lord Hanuman kalamkari painting in my collection on the auspicious occasion of Hanumath Jayanthi festival

This is Lord Hanuman kalamkari painting in my collection sharing today on the auspicious occasion of Hanumath Jayanthi festival.

Elephant kalamkari paintings

These are two different Elephant kalamkari paintings in my collection.

Second World Telugu Conference 1981 souvenir in my collection

This is "Second World Telugu Conference 1981" Souvenir in my collection. Cover page of this souvenir printed with cloth bound cover and both sides of the cover printed with beautiful kalamkari designs,

kalamkari design greeting cards in my collection

These are Horse, Parrot and Lord Ganesha Kalamkari design  greeting cards in my collection.

Kalamkari painting step by step procedure album in my collection

This is Kalamkari paintings step by step procedure of how to draw a kalamkari painting album in my collection.

Only few kalamkari artists draw and prepare this step by step procedure of kalamkari album. 

Now such album is becoming rare because in the present generation no artist is not able to prepare such album because it require lot of time and patience and this prepared by an old artist many years back and now it is very rare because now-a-days these age old kalamkari artists not able to get enough money for their livelihood.

More over in compare with olden days present day we are not able to get such beautiful treasures from artists because day by day many of our age old traditions are becoming in the list of vanishing and endangered heritage because of lack of support getting by artist from society for his livelihood. hence it is our responsibility to respect those traditions and try to document them and give some amount of money to them with respect to the artistetc. From the last 100 years of technological advancement we lost many of our age old traditions and cultures.

These are the various steps in preparing a kalamkari painting as per the album which is in my collection

1.Destrached Cotton Cloth 

2. Treated with myrobalan and milk 

3. Preliminary drawng with Charcoal 

4. Permanent black lines using Iron Solution 

5.Alumn applied wehreevcer red colour is required 

6.Excess alumn removed in flowing water 

7.Cotton boiled in solution of red pigments (Surul bark & Seveeling root) 

8.Bleached cloth 

9.Yellow colour applied using myrobalan flower extract 

10.Blue coor obtained from Indigo crystals 

11.Blue colour is painted over yellows to get green

Lord Sri Krishna Kaliyamardhanam kalamkari paintings

Kaliya (Kāliya, Devanagari: कालिय), in Hindu tradition, Kaliya was the name of a poisonous Naga living in the Yamuna River, in Vrindavan. The water of the Yamuna for four leagues all around him boiled and bubbled with poison. No bird or beast could go near, and only one solitary Kadamba tree grew on the river bank.

The proper home of Kāliya was Ramanaka Dwipa, but he had been driven away from there by fear of  Gardua, the foe of all serpents. Garuda had been cursed by a yogi dwelling at Vrindavan so that he could not come to Vrindavan without meeting his death. Therefore Kāliya chose Vrindavan as his residence, knowing it was the only place where Garuda could not come.

Once Krishna and  other boys were playing ball, and while playing Krishna climbed up the Kadamba tree and hung over the river bank, the ball fell into the river and Krishna jumped after it. Kāliya rose up with his hundred and ten hoods vomiting poison and wrapped himself around Krishna's body. Krishna became so huge that Kāliya had to release him. So Krishna saved himself from every attack, and when he saw the Brij folk were so much afraid he suddenly sprang into Kāliya's head and assumed the weight of the whole universe, and danced on the naga's heads, beating time with his feet. Then Kāliya began to die. But then the naga's wives came and prayed to Krishna with joined palms, worshipping Krishna and praying for their husband.

Kāliya, recognizing the greatness of Krishna, surrendered, promising he would not harass anybody. So Krishna pardoned him and then let him go free to leave the river and go to Ramanaka Dwipa. 

The above text courtesy on Kaliyamardhanam is from the widipedia.org website. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliya

In my collection i have 2 different Lord Sri Krishna Kaliyamardhanam kalamkari paintings.

This is a sculpture of Lord Sri Krishna Kaliyamardhanam in a temple. This sculpture is decorated with lighting.

This is a Lord Sri Krishna Kaliyamardhanam vintage art print in my collection.