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Warli Paintings

Warli is the name of the largest tribe to be found on the northern outskirts of Bombay, in Western India and extends up to the Gujarat border. The origin of the Warlis is yet unknown and no records of this art are found, but many scholars and folklorists believe that it can be traced to as early as the tenth century AD.

This Warli art was eventually rediscovered in the early seventies, and became popular for its unique simplicity and fervour for life.

Usually the Warli paintings are done during the marriage ceremony and they call them as Lagnace citra meaning marriage paintings. The painting is sacred and without it the marriage cannot take place. 

The subjects found in these paintings are wedding scenes, various animals, birds, trees, men, women, children, descriptive harvest scene, group of men dancing around a person playing the music, dancing peacocks, and many more. One of the famous Warli paintings is the marriage chowkatt – a painting made at the time of marriage.

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     Arts and crafts comprise a whole host of activities and hobbies that are related to making things with one's hands and skill. These can be sub-divided into handicrafts or "traditional crafts" (doing things the old way) and "the rest". Some crafts have been practised for centuries, while others are modern inventions, or popularisations of crafts which were originally practised in a very small geographic area.

     Most crafts require a combination of skill, speed, and patience, but they can also be learnt on a more basic level by virtually anyone. Many community centres and schools run evening or day classes and workshops offering to teach basic craft skills in a short period of time. Many of these crafts become extremely popular for brief periods of time (a few months, or a few years), spreading rapidly among the crafting population as everyone emulates the first examples, then their popularity wanes until a later resurgence.

Types of arts and crafts
     There are almost as many variations on the theme of "arts and crafts" and can be broken down into following categories:

Crafts involving textiles

• Cross-stitch
• Embroidery
• Knitting
• Patchwork
• Quilting
• Ribbon embroidery
• Sewing
• Weaving

Crafts involving paper or canvas

• Paper craft
  • Collage
  • Decoupage
  • Embossing
  • Papermaking
  • Origami or Paper folding
  • Papier-mâch