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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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.

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

Lion Kalamkari paintings in my collection.

These are 2 different Lion Kalamkari paintings in my collection.

Beautiful Kalamkari Painting Images

Kalamkari (Telugu: కలంకారి) or Qalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block- printed cotton textile, produced in parts of India. The word is derived from the Persian words kalam (pen) and kari (craftsmanship), meaning drawing with a pen.

The Machilipatnam Kalamkari craft made at Pedana near by Machilipatnam in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh State, evolved with patronage of the Mughals and the Golconda Sultanate.

There are two distinctive styles of kalamkari art in India - one, the Srikalahasti style and the other, the Machilipatnam style of art. The Srikalahasti style of Kalamkari, wherein the "kalam" or pen is used for free hand drawing of the subject and filling in the colours, is entirely hand worked. This style flowered around temples and their patronage and so had an almost religious identity - scrolls, temple hangings, chariot banners and the like, depicted deities and scenes taken from the great Hindu epics - Ramayana, Mahabarata, Purnaas and the mythological classics. This style owes its present status to Smt. Kamaladevi Chattopadhayay who popularised the art as the first Chairperson of the All India Handicrafts Board. Only natural dyes are used in Kalamkari and it involves seventeen painstaking steps.

The above text courtesy on Kalamkari paintings from the website of Wikipedia.org.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamkari

Recently i received a book on Kalamkari alongwith some greeting cards on Kalamkari from Mr.Srinivas Krothapally of Chroma Academy as a gift. 

Srinivas sir thank you very much for sending me a copy of your book and greeting cards as a gift and also many thanks for sharing your beautiful kalamkari images to me and giving permission for sharing them in my Heritage of India blog.

The Chroma Academy http://www.thechromaacademy.com/ began its activities in the year 2000 with the aim of being a nodal centre for promotion, development and training of motivated individuals who are keen to sustain and enrich our heritage. It is a place where one gains knowledge of basic skills in drawing old and modern methods of painting, whether drawing, sketching or painting. One can also pick up modern, traditional and abstract paintings and interact gainfully in modern trends. The ChromaAcademy is also a place of social interaction with like minded thinkers.

These are some beautiful Kalamkari images of Mr.Srinivas Krothapally of Chroma Academy,Chennai.

Please look into these beautiful kalamkari images as each of these image represent and share the rich art and cultural heritage of Kalamkari traditional designs and patterns.Further these beautiful images also explain the history of our Epics and Puranas which people need them in the current generation.