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Dokra craft and manufacturing have recently received a big boost from growing demand in foreign shores. Foreign customers and a global leader in high fashion houses in the street have expressed a strong interest in Dokra aisle. However, the picture is not as rosy as it seems. There are many thorns in the bed of roses and artisans Dokra be united by their crippling limitations and disadvantages. Dokra artists work with their hands, because each piece is handmade crafts Dokra. And because this order is not up to the mark and finished the final product leaves much to be desired.

Sun Dokra items to be exported abroad, are polished, smooth and a lot of additional details on the machines elsewhere. This enamel car and ending on the last lap to provide a vital shine and brightness and beauty Dokra rustic elements. Sometimes these products are exported to foreign shores Dokra coated with Teflon to scratches, cuts, to avoid bites and to protect the statue everyday wear. However, the Teflon coating is an industrial process.

Since most of the handmade products Dokra is not possible, the market remains small and niche. You see, because every Dokra work of art is produced, the production period is quite long, and these two factors increase the market price. So, these handmade products Dokra extremely expensive and out of the reach of most middle class people who would think twice before investing so much money behind the elements of tribal culture alive at home.

If these elements were produced by machine or by Dokra industrial processes have been made, prices have fallen considerably. The reason why it takes so long it is thrown Dokra because the first image is a concrete form of the wax together. A shipment of new product lines is approximately 6 to 8 months. Why not take orders large Dokra artists. The price of a currency, India is about Rs 1000 Dokra vessel must pay more than Rs 1600 to serve a few sentences.

They were directed to groups of artisans in metal sporadically scattered in the mineral-rich tribal belt of central India, as in the tribal districts of Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Bengal, Vindhya hills. These metal-nomadic artisans belonging to lower castes are known as social or Dhokra Dokra. The ornamental figures decorated in a variety of shapes and sizes of metal and bronze objects that produce them dokras / produced as artifacts or vessels Dokra Dokra are known.

Artisans of today have a habit of travel back and nomads have decided that, in particular the definition of the tribal belt of Birbhum, Bankura, Purulia, Burdwan and Midnapore districts of West Bengal. At some point in time, these craftsmen had decided to travel, settle in Rampur, a suburb district administration in the districts of Bengal and later moved to a new town called Bikna. Like a blacksmith or metal Kamar / Karmakar said to Bengal, belong to lower social status or hierarchy. This forging Kamar Dokra happened and is happening on the wrong side of people to ridicule, contempt, disgust and loathing for their social caste / lower range. And so are forced to live on the margins of society because of their low caste and profession. They are really good and socially excluded.

However, Bengal dokras who have settled in a place that left their nomadic nature, most of the market in the production of Dokra left behind as well. Currently, the industry, once thriving art Dokra survived only thanks to the support of some families who continue to support this trade is their only source of livelihood, even in the face of extreme poverty and social exclusion. And ‘disheartening to note that currently only 35 families of artisans still practice Dokra high capacity and the numbers are decreasing rapidly. The Indian government should take to complete the cause of the craft, craftsmen Dokra Dokra on the warpath for this dying art form, the valuable contribution to the enrichment and promotion of popular culture has to rescue.

But the big question of Western culture has made sure that did not die a quiet death Dokra art, but received a big boost and was the subject of the resurrection.

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.