Elephant Wall Hook

Details

Elephant Wall Hook is a great solution to all your problems related to hang coats and garments. This is a stylish piece of handiwork that proves to be highly useful as well. This wall hook features an intriguing make and resembles the face of an elephant, diligently carved on brass metal. As it is handcrafted using traditional Dhokra skills, this Elephant Wall Hook has gained the reputation of the rare vintage items that are hard to find elsewhere but goroots. Adorn the interiors of your home with this one and go on to hang all kinds of garments, coats and apparels neatly with the two hooks provided at the centre. Its design is an artistic creation of the Bastar craftsmen who make use of hands to come up with such intriguing artefacts from molten brass or bell metal. The face of the elephant is beautified with intricate motifs and designer elements that are hard to go unnoticed. Include it into your vintage collection today and bring home a touch of royalty!

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 Elephant Wall Hook 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.