Spinner Toy - Channapatna

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The Spinner Toy Channapatna is an intriguing fun toy for kids offered by goroots at best possible deals. It is a classic toy that most of the adults now would recollect playing with, back in their childhood. This fantastic plaything is popular even today and kids love spinning around and playing with it for a great optical illusion. Hold the threaded cords by the ends and slowly wind it up only to see a great visual effect of it unwinding back! Although it is a simple and uncomplicated toy, this spinner toy can create great deal of excitement and thrills as you see it unwinding on its own. It can be enjoyed by both old and young. This Channapatna toy is handcrafted with premium quality softwood and hence it is eco-friendly and bio-degradable. The amount of colours used is minimum to keep the natural effect of the wood intact. The colours used are natural vegetable dyes. Gift this to your child and delight him/her with this unique spinner toy.

About Channapatna Art

The wooden toys manufactured in the Channapatna or the toy-town of Karnataka are popularly known as Channapatna toys. 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.