Dhokra Handicrafts: The New Personalized Memento Trend

Indian handmade items are unique and eco-friendly. The handcrafted gifts can also be amazing collections. One of the example of such unique and rare Indian handicraft collection is the Dhokra craft. The Dhokra crafts truly reflects the essence of West Bengal, which is simple and traditional. People even believe that presence of Dhokra items in any space brings good luck and wealth.

If you want to decorate your home or gift something unique to your friend, then you can use such handcrafted personalized mementos. These Dhokra handicrafts are a category of artwork that consumes the hands or effortless apparatus to generate amazing products that may be valuable as well as outstanding for exhibiting the beautification.

Why has Dhokra craft suddenly become so highly demanded?

The demand for Dhokra products are increasing rapidly as personalized mementos or gifts. All the Dhokra art pieces are handcrafted, and so it does not have a highly excellent finishing as a result it gives a realistic view to everyone.

How Dhokra art receives its shape?

• Dhokra artists make use of low wax casting process to roughly shape the image. First, the Dhokra artists meditate hard in order to imagine the image s/he wants to create. After this process, s/he gives concrete shape to the image in wax.

• This wax figure is covered within a hardened core of clay that is quite close to the replica of the object that is about to be cast. Generally sufficient quantity of molten metal is poured into the clay covering through a hole at the top.

• These layers of refractory soft material will be poured in wax and then the overall thing will be left to dry. Then the mold will be heated and dried. When the mold is being heated the wax in the wax model is vaporized and melts in the heat. That is why it is called the lost wax technique. The finished Dhokra product is given a final round of polishing and smoothed down to increase the beauty.

Dhokra handicrafts have attained enormous acknowledgement in the global marketplace. Whether you present your loved ones as personalized mementos on any special occasion or decorate your home as a household, these Dhokra products are really antique in look and style.

Author’s bio:

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