Applique : Arts & Crafts
Applique in Orissa is an old temple art, which has been refined
to a perfection. A fine example of the craft is the enormous applique
canopies above the reigning deity of Puri, Lordjagannath.
Applique art is the process of cutting coloured cloth into shapes
of animals, birds, flowers, leaves and other decorative motifs and
stitching them on to a piece of cloth that can ultimately be used
as a lamp shade, a hand bag or even a garden umbrella.
The village of Pipli, close to Bhubaneswar, is the site of beautiful
applique work, created by artists, quite a few of whom have won
national awards for their crafts.
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