An Insight To The Handicrafts Of India That Have Worldwide Recognition

India is blessed with a rich heritage. A heritage rooted in the deepest and farthest places of our country. The Indian handicraft is a part of that great heritage. Handicrafting has its roots in the rural. A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools.

There are almost as many variations on the theme of handicrafts as there are crafters with time on their hands, but they can be broken down into a number of categories. If one wishes to still keep alive the Indian heritage you could promote it and buy handicrafts online. The list is given below:

Using Textiles Or Leather:

1. Bagh prints
2. Banner making
3. Calligraphy
4. Canvas work
5. Cross-stitch
6. Crochet
7. Darning
8. Embroidery
9. Felting
10. Knitting
11. Lace making
12. Embossing leather
13. Lucet
14. Macramé
15. Hat making
16. Needlepoint
17. Needle work generally
18. Patchwork
19. Quilting
20. Ribbon embroidery
21. Rug making
22. Saddle making
23. Sewing
24. Shoe making
25. Silk screening
26. Spinning (textile)
27. String Art
28. Tapestry
29. Tatting
30. T-shirt art
31. Weaving

Using wood, Metal, Clay, Bone, Horn, Glass Or Stone:

1. Bead work
2. Bone carving (buffalo, camel etc as well as horn)
3. Brass broidered coconut shell craft of Kerela
4. Buffalo horn plates
5. Carpentry
6. Ceramic art generally
7. Chip carving
8. Copper arts
9. Dollhouse construction and furnishing
10. Enameling and grisaille
11. Fretwork
12. Glass etching
13. Glassblowing
14. Jewellery design
15. Lapidary
16. Lath art
17. Marquetry
18. Mosaics
19. Pottery
20. Puppet making
21. Repousse and chasing (embossing metal)
22. Scale modelling
23. Stained glass
24. Toy making
25. Wood burning (pyrography)
26. Wood carving
27. Wood turning
28. Woodworking generally

Using Paper Or Canvas:

1. Altered books
2. Artist trading cards
3. Assemblage- collage in three dimensions
4. Bookbinding
5. Card making
6. Collage
7. Decollage
8. Decoupage
9. Embossing paper
10. Iris folding
11. Origami or paper folding
12. Paper marbling
13. Paper modeling, paper craft or card modeling
14. Papier- mache
15. Parchment craft
16. Popup books
17. Quilling or paper filigree
18. Rubber/ acrylic stamping
19. Scrap booking

Using Plants Other Than Wood:

1. Basket weaving
2. Corn dolly making
3. Floral design
4. Pressed flower craft
5. Straw marquetry

Other:

1. Balloon animals
2. Cake decorating
3. Egg decorating

With such a large variation of handicrafts in India, one can probably estimate the incredible amount of creativity in here. Coming from a country with such rich heritage for handicrafts is any day a proud thing. But, the metal handicrafts India are the most renowned of them all. Metal handicrafts include metal work using zinc, copper, brass, silver, and gold. Some other traditional ancient handicraft styles such as Dhokra, barware, kamrupi, and PembaRhi have worldwide recognition. I hope this article gives an insight into the rich culture of our country.