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.

Handicrafts in my collection

These are combination of several crafts in my collection. The crafts photographs sharing here which are in my collection are terracotta lanterns, sholapith crafts, kondapalli toys, bobbili veena, kavad portable shrine, jute crafts etc. displayed in our glass cup board.

Freedom Fighters images printed vintage Playing Card and vintage Hair Oil Label in my collection.

These are Freedom Fighters images printed  vintage Playing Card and vintage Hair Oil Label in my collection. Sharing them today now on the occasion of our Independence Day.

Bharat Mata image printed vintage labels in my collection

These are "Bharat Mata" image printed three different vintage labels and one vintage cloth merchant's letterhead in my collection. Sharing them now today on the occasion of our Independence Day.

Women performing puja to our National Flag vintage art postcard in my collection

This is women performing puja by offering flowers and arati to our National Flag vintage art postcard in my collection. Sharing this vintage postcard now today on the occasion of our Independence Day.

Indian Women Freedom Fighters vintage textiles labels and postcards in my collection

These are some Indian Women Freedom Fighters vintage textiles labels and postcards in my collection. Sharing them now today on the occasion of our Independence Day with a respect to all women freedom fighters. Names of the some prominent women freedom fighters labels which are in my collection and i am sharing here are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyaya, Sarojini Naidu, Kamala Nehru, Ramiben Kamdar and some others.

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

"Damayanti" vintage art print of Chitrashala Press, Pune in my collection

This is "Damayanti" vintage art print of Raja Ravi Varma painting of Chitrashala Press, Pune in my collection.

These are three different tamil woman in traditional sarees vintage kolu dolls in my collection

These are three different tamil woman in traditional sarees vintage kolu dolls in my collection.