A handicraft fair — West Bengal Hasta Shilpa Mela 2022 — is on full swing at Aikatan. Organised by the micro, small and medium enterprises and textile department, it shall continue till August 4, 2pm till 8.30pm. Entry is free. The fair has brought under a roof patachitra, junk jewellery, leather bags and various other home decor items. Here’s a glimpse of the items on offer-
Wooden clocks
How about a night owl or a Steve Jobs-inspired bitten-into apple to tell the time? A workshop from Howrah has sent clocks set on such eye-catching wooden designs. “We use a single slice of pine or sonajhuri wood and carve them out as per requirement. The wood has to be burnt, chemically processed and varnished,” says Tandra Paul. “We complete batches of 50 in about a month and the clocks are then embedded on the wooden frames.”
Jute table flags
Jute dolls and animals you have seen but with less than a month to go for Independence Day, Bela Mahato bets big on flags. “I sold three or four of these in the very first couple of days,” says the artisan from Raiganj. “The jute has to be painted, braided and wrapped around the wire base of the flag structure.”
Planters
What’s better than an artistic wall-hanging? A wall-hanging that doubles as a money plant holder. Sandip Dutta from Nimta has acrylic-painted slices of mahogany with motifs of nature and deities and at the base fixed a glass holder with a money plant. “The wall-hangings are water and insect-resistant, and can be washed clean. The plant would need to be watered just once a week,” he says.
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