Wall Hanging Mask - Laughing Female

Details

Wall Hanging Mask - Laughing Female is a perfect blend of style, grace and utility. Decorate the walls of your home with this exquisite piece of art and gather praises for your choice of craft. Apart from its visual beauty and aesthetics, this Dhokra relic is known to bring good luck and fortune in the home of its owner. More than anything else, it can be used as a apt wall art decor to beautify the look and feel of a living space with either modern or an ethnic layout. This mask has been handcrafted diligently by the master Bastar craftsmen of central India. It is brilliantly designed just by using hands and simple instruments like the hammer, filer and cutter for providing the well-crafted look and feel. It is a perfect housewarming party gift. Co-ordinate this one with the Wall Hanging Mask Laughing Male and create a unique set for the lucky recipient!

About Dhokra Art

Dhokra is one of the oldest forms of the art of non-ferrous metal casting. It is the tribes of Gadwas, Dhurwas and Gonds that still practise the 4000-year old art, following the lost wax casting techniques.

The metal workers make a living by handcrafting, moulding and casting alloy of brass, nickel and copper or the Dhokra, as it is regionally called. The art originates from the central and eastern Indian states including Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and Jharkhand along with West Bengal, where the art originally belongs to.

 The tribal group of the metal workers initially travelled from the remote interiors of West Bengal to down south, as far as Kerala and right up to the western state of Rajasthan as well.

Procedure

As the word Dhokra also describes a certain sect of the tribes who perform the art of metal casting using the lost wax techniques of solid casting and hollow casting, which initially involves treating the coarse clay mould to high temperatures in an oven or by drying in the sun.

 The beeswax is drawn into stripes and fine wires in order to wrap them around the heated clay in order to produce a similar, though softer mould. The beeswax is mixed with resinous gum and then boiled in mustard oil.

The model is then evenly coated with a very thin layer of wet clay, the stage that lets fine details of the replica to make an impression on the clay. Before the clay is added to the molten metal, the clay is either heated or sundried and the mould is carefully heated to high degree centigrade until the wax melts in the process leaving a cavity behind. The hollow cavity is then filled with a molten metal and set aside to cool off.

 Finally, the clay mould is broken and the object is taken out for the purpose of cleaning and polishing. Before providing final touches to the brassware, the Dhokra artists chisel and polish the artefact using herbal colours.

Region

The Wall Hanging Mask - Laughing Female does duly depict the rich ethics of the Dhokra tribes situated in the Central and Eastern regions of India that stretches from Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand to West Bengal and Orissa.

goroots provides a concrete backing to the Dhokra craftsmen in the remote interiors of the culture-rich states of India. We encourage the ability of the tribal handicraft artisans and genuinely support their efforts through our website.