Wooden Jar Maroon Floral Design - Channapatna

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Add a touch of elegance and dramatic appeal to your kitchen and dining space with this brilliantly handcrafted Wooden Jar Maroon Floral Design Channapatna. Diligently hand-thrown, this piece of home decor is a certain utility-based product that you can have for your home. Please your visitors, friends and relatives with this one and gather tons of appreciation for your choice of kitchenware.
The jar is handmade from best quality raw materials with the basic one being the ivory softwood. Throughout the jar, you will find intricate floral motifs painted beautifully it is a work of the expert Channapatna artisans, for which they are famous worldwide. The colours used are harmless and do not contain chemicals nor are acid-based. It can thus be used to store food stuffs, especially the ones that are dried and are not oily or water-based.
 
About Channapatna Art
 
The products manufactured in the Channapatna or the toy-town of Karnataka are popularly known as Channapatna utilities. It is a proper particular form of art practised in the southern state and is been preserved as a geographical indication (GI) under the norms of the World Trade Organization.
A typical type of wood from the Wrightia Tinctoria tree, also known as Aale Mara or ivory wood, is used in the making of the Channapatna toys. This wood is light in weight and closely grained so that it is easy to work with. It is easy to cut, process and finish and the artisans can find the wood in abundance as the tree is abundantly found in the geographical area.
 
Right from procuring the wood to its pruning, seasoning and colouring, the expert Channapatna craftsmen use handicraft skills that are pure, crude and raw. Final polishing of the product and the dyeing is done using naturally found colours or vegetable dyes based on the likes and preferences of the artisans.
 
The Channapatna toy industry is in great demand today. Although, a decade ago it faced an intense competition from the Chinese market, Channapatna toy industry is now back on its feet and enjoying great reception worldwide. Most of the products are exported to USA, UK and Europe.