The Making
Revitalising the Bell Metal Craft with Contemporary Design
The rendezvous of humans with metals was first recorded in the Chalcolithic or Copper Age (4500–3500...
By Suman Das
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For centuries.Made in thesame way.
One hand. One tradition. One piece.
Living Craft
Indigenous Traditions
Performance Crafts
Metal Traditions
Court Arts
The Origin
Craft Map
Civilization
Living Culture
Sacred Year
Featured Works
Narrative PaintingPattachitra
Out of StockRasamandala Panoramic Pattachitra — Krishna Leela & Ramayana Narrative Panel
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Narrative PaintingPattachitra
Out of StockKrishnavataar Pattachitra
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Textile TraditionsPipili Chandua (Appliqué)
Out of StockBlack Paisley Chandua — Pipili Appliqué Wall Hanging by Umesh Mohapatra
₹10,000
The Collector's Journal
The Making
The Hands Behind the Black Ground
Late afternoon in Raghurajpur, and the floor is the studio. A man sits cross-legged on a coir mat, a...
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The Places
Forgotten Temples of India: Quiet Stones, Loud Histories
India’s landscape is threaded with temples — some famous and crowded, others quiet and almost invisible. The “forgotten” temples are not lesser in craft or spirit; they are simply less visible to the ...
Why It Endures
Crowded Trails and Lost Tales: How to achieve sustainable and equitable future for travel ?
a city built on water, a labyrinth of canals and bridges, where gondolas glide silently past centuries-old palaces. The air is thick with th...
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The Making
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The Making
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By Suman Das
The Making
The Legacy Of Pattachitra
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The Places
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The Heartlands
From ancient stories to timeless craftsmanship, Tourwit lets you experience culture in every journey and bring home a genuine piece of history.
Belgium
Belgium occupies a rare position in the history of making: it became influential not because it was isolated, but because it stood at the intersection of nearly every major commercial and cultural current in northwestern Europe. Few countries of comparable size have exerted such a disproportionate i…
Ghana
In the Ashanti kingdom, a new kente pattern is presented to the Asantehene before anyone else may wear it, and the finest designs remain his to reserve. Cloth, in Ghana, has rank, and it has always had language too: every kente pattern carries a name, a history or a proverb, so that a person's cloth…
Shri Jagannath Corridor
The Shri Jagannath Corridor of Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack is a living civilizational continuum where faith, power, art and memory have coexisted for over two millennia. From the moral awakening born of the Kalinga War to the rise of the temple cities, this landscape found its unifying axis in the…
The Porcelain Capital
Jingdezhen in Jiangxi has made porcelain for a thousand years and has made almost nothing else. The town took its name in 1004 from the reign of the emperor who claimed its output, and from 1369 an Imperial Kiln Factory at Zhushan worked to the court's order alone. For the collector, this is a place…
India
In most parts of the world, the traditions that shaped historical objects survive in museums, archives, and memory. In India, many remain part of everyday life. The same cultural forces that commissioned paintings, textiles, metalwork, sculpture, and ceremonial objects centuries ago continue to oper…
Hungary
Kalocsa is the town that embroiders what it farms. The little Danube city on Hungary's Great Plain is the country's paprika capital, its red harvest protected by European designation, and it is equally the home of Hungary's most recognisable embroidery, whose swags of flowers, tulips, violets, lilie…
The Grassfields Kingdoms
In the kingdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields, beadwork is applied to carved wood. Thrones, masks, staffs, drinking horns and the enormous beaded elephant masks worn in the royal societies are carved first, coated in resin, and then covered entirely in imported glass beads pressed into the surface in …
The Papercut Villages
Chinese paper-cutting was inscribed by UNESCO in 2009, and the villages that carry it work in the cheapest material any craft in this collection uses. At Yuxian in Hebei the practice inverts its own name: the designs are not cut with scissors but carved with knives through a stack of layered paper, …
The Heartlands
From ancient stories to timeless craftsmanship, Tourwit lets you experience culture in every journey and bring home a genuine piece of history.
Belgium
Belgium occupies a rare position in the history of making: it became influential not because it was isolated, but because it stood at the intersection of nearly every major commercial and cultural current in northwestern Europe. Few countries of comparable size have exerted such a disproportionate i…
Shri Jagannath Corridor
The Shri Jagannath Corridor of Bhubaneswar, Puri and Cuttack is a living civilizational continuum where faith, power, art and memory have coexisted for over two millennia. From the moral awakening born of the Kalinga War to the rise of the temple cities, this landscape found its unifying axis in the…
India
In most parts of the world, the traditions that shaped historical objects survive in museums, archives, and memory. In India, many remain part of everyday life. The same cultural forces that commissioned paintings, textiles, metalwork, sculpture, and ceremonial objects centuries ago continue to oper…