I’m sure you’ve often heard of this art form as a craft or art Dokra Dhokra known. But you know what? Do you have any idea where Dokra artisan factory? You know the story of its creation?
What is it? Dokra art is a kind of art form based on the technique of lost wax metal used in the fusion. Of course, like thousands of other art forms of ‘India – one of the most important cultural, Dokra is also a kind of national crafts, the kind of brass handicrafts.
Because this art is so popular? There are millions of other sculptors to give technical failure, rather than other Dokra imaginary. Industrial and production units in the field of dentistry have used the technique of lost wax Dokra art of the last 100 years. And since it is mostly junk, which is often used by artisans Dokra, craft or artistic Dokra Dhokra is environmentally friendly. The artisans are now, at the request of cultural affairs and foreign ministries and handicrafts from India are trying to integrate more modern designs for the Dokra / Dhokra art. Therefore, it is no wonder that this beautiful art form and has become increasingly individualistic journey through the banks and affecting the world markets in Europe and America, where he found great favor with the international customers. The people of Milan were due to the complexity of the models and Dokra unparalleled craftsmanship that is famous for overwhelmed.
About Dhokra artisans / craftsmen and Dokra : Although Dokra is known primarily as the art of Bengal, there are health centers in some parts of the production Dokra Andhra Pradesh in the south and Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Orissa, Central India. You can find the artisans Dhokra sporadically in a vast country, rich in minerals that dominates the tribal areas, scattered pockets in central India and parts of Bengal, districts like Birbhum, Bankura, Midnapore, Purulia and Burdwan. The popular culture of the tribal belt are the inspiration for the reasons Dokra state. In places like Raigarh and Bastar districts of Chhattisgarh, bronze, brass and bell metal are used to carve Dokra art / art Dhokra. The technology used in spiral Dokra fusion and is unique in Bastar.