Small Wooden Jar - Red & Green Cap

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The Small Wooden Jar Red & Green Cap is a beautiful addition to kitchen and dining space. It not only enhances the beauty and appeal of the surroundings but significantly adds to the utility value as well. Homemakers who love to decorate their kitchen and dining tables with unique and delightful kitchenware can go for this charming little marvel. It can amazingly hold dry foods such as spices, pickles, tea-powder, coffee-powder, salt, sugar, black pepper etcetera.
This is a wonderful creation of Channapatna art. The jar as well as the lid is made up of ivory softwood, one of the significant materials of Channapatna along with a special ingredient in the form of naturally found lac. All the materials used are most excellent in quality and free from harmful chemicals, acids and toxins. This jar is coloured using natural tints and vegetable-based dyes.
 
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.