{"id":5884,"date":"2022-12-22T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T03:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5884"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:59:16","slug":"what-is-dokra-metal-crafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-dokra-metal-crafts\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Dokra Metal Crafts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dokra Metal Crafts:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dhokra is a form of ancient bell metal craft practiced by the Ojha metal smiths living in states like <strong>Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Telangana.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>However, the style and also the workmanship of this artisan community varies in different states.<\/li>\n<li>Dhokra or Dokra, is also known as <strong>bell metal craft.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its documented history is about <strong>5,000 years old.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Making dokra art is a difficult process. Each figurine takes about a month to make.<\/li>\n<li>Dokra artifacts are mainly made in brass and are highly unique wherein the pieces do not have any form of joints. The whole object is fully handcrafted.<\/li>\n<li>The traditional designs are considered highly aesthetic in nature and a collector\u2019s delight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What is the process?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>There are many processes involved, for which seven to eight varieties of clay is required, apart from other raw material.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The method of making Dokra is done by combining the metallurgical skills with that of the lost wax technique.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The handicrafts are known for combining the metallurgical skills with wax technique for making artefacts of distinctive look and beauty.<\/li>\n<li>The lost wax technique is a distinct form where the mould is used only once and broken, which makes the figure one of its kind in the handicraft market.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There are two process of lost wax casting.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The first one is <strong>Solid casting which is the method followed in the South and hollow casting, practiced in other states.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Who invented Dhokra art?<\/h3>\n<p>The Dhokra Damar tribes were the earliest metalsmiths from West Bengal who used the ancient technique of lost wax casting and gave the craft of Dhokra its name.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/19149\/OPS\/G6DALNQMR.1.png?rev=2022-12-22T01:19:32+05:30&amp;cropFromPage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bengal village Lalbazar basks in the glory of an ancient metalcraft<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhokra is an ancient bell metal craft practised by Ojha metalsmiths in Jharkhand &#038; neighbouring states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5884","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\/5884","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=5884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}