{"id":24798,"date":"2024-07-06T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24798"},"modified":"2025-04-07T13:16:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:46:44","slug":"kalamkari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kalamkari\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalamkari"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Kalamkari:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a highly popular form of <strong>hand-painted or block-printed<\/strong> cotton textile and paintings, practised in <strong>Andhra Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Kalamkari came up as a textile tradition during the reign of <strong>Qutb Shahis at Golconda<\/strong> in the 16-17th century.<\/li>\n<li>The art form <strong>originated in Tilang,<\/strong> the region between what is present-day Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe word \u2018Kalam\u2019 meant pen, while \u2018Kari\u2019 meant craftsmanship.<\/li>\n<li>There are two distinct styles of Kalamkari &#8211; <strong>Srikalahasti and the Pedana style Kalamkari<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pedana style Kalamkari<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is also known as <strong>Machilipatnam style<\/strong> which involves vegetable dyed block-painting of a fabric.<\/li>\n<li>The artist prints the outlines as well as the main features of his designs with <strong>hand-carved wooden blocks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is Persian in character because of the patronage and proximity to the <strong>Mughals and the Golkonda Sultanate.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The traditional block prints in this art largely use <strong>motifs<\/strong> such as interlacing patterns of leaves and flowers, the cartwheel, different forms of the lotus flower etc.<\/li>\n<li>This style has received the Geographical<strong> Indications tag.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Srikalahasti\u2019s style<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Srikalahasti\u2019s style involves using a <strong>traditional pen<\/strong> with a brush to draw the designs.<\/li>\n<li>The Srikalahasti artisans restricted themselves to making a <strong>hand-painted cloth<\/strong> that was <strong>primarily used in temples<\/strong>, to either hang it behind the deity or on a chariot.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme:<\/strong> Mythological figures became the theme of the art that originated in the temple town.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the Geographical Indication (GI) tag?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a sign used on products that have a specific geographical origin and possess qualities or a reputation that are due to that origin. This is typically used for agricultural products, foodstuffs, wine and spirit drinks, handicrafts and industrial products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/andhra-pradesh\/tradition-in-tatters-kalamkari-colours-fading-in-aps-pedana\/article68370530.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tradition in tatters: Kalamkari colours fading in A.P.\u2019s Pedana<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamkari is a highly popular form of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile and paintings, practised in Andhra Pradesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}