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STORYTELLING THROUGH HANDICRAFTS

This is the 21st century, the modern era for entertainment, technology, and livelihood. A life so busy that one does not even have time for themselves. People work like machines, just to earn a living. In such a competitive world, technology plays its role to entertain some during their rest hours. They watch television, or listen to music. This modern era replete various ways to entertain oneself. One doesn’t even have to step out of the hose to be entertained. With the technological entertainments, the glorious days of storytelling has been evaporated. The origin for entertainment disappears and evaporated into air with the advent of technology. Storytelling, an art for entertainment and knowledge, dissipates

Whether orally, through scripts or painting, storytelling tends to be one of the art among people. The handicraft industry of India also has a hold in storytelling. The different handmade crafts by the artisans depicts some or the other story, making it more interesting, unique and an antique. Be it pottery, wood craft, metal craft or any other crafts, the artisans, with professionalism and skills, moulds a simple item with the different art forms that narrates a story, that has its source in India. There are hundreds and thousands of stories that are hundreds and thousands of year old and has been preserved by the Indian Handicraft industry. When the Indian handicraft was losing its demand in the domestic as well as international markets, the artisans, through their intense research, started documenting the history of India through art forms in their work. This not only helped them to make a position for themselves in the market, but also helped to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the

The purpose of the craftsmen is to concentrate on creating stories through different art forms, borrowing from the legends of the country. Each story depicted holds different message, ethics or morals behind it. Stories are framed in a very artistic way. Not only the government but the different NGO’s of the country has helped to a great extent to bring up the lost Handicraft Industry in business. With their support, the handicraft industry came out through all the obstacles in game with the international market. Keeping pace with the tradition, the Indian handicraft industry did show its importance to the world. With globalisation, the handicraft industry did show its growth and exported items of around one thousand two hundred twenty million in the global market in 1991-1992. It did increase and reached the peak of around nine million in