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Everything You Should Know About Wooden Handicraft

Bastar Wooden Handicraft are traditional Indian wooden crafts that are manufactured in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh state, India. The wood-crafting work has been protected under the Geographical indication (GI) of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement. It is listed at item 84 as “Bastar Wooden Craft” of the GI Act 1999 of the Government of India with registration confirmed by the Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks.

Where Wooden Handicraft of Tribal Art is famous in India?

Bastar Art derived it’s name from Bastar, a tribal district of Chhattisgarh with the population. About 70% in the district. In this area, people are divided into different tribes & each tribe has its own culture and a way of living. They are different from each other. In many ways such as groups have a different tradition, languages. They speak differ from each other, attire, worship customs, eating habits and much more. You might find it strange that in the 21st century. There are many tribal groups living in the deep forest and unaware of this changing world.

The tribal groups who are still living in Bastar district are as follows: Abhuj Maria, Bison Horn Maria, Bhatra, Dhurvaa, Gonds, Halbaa, Muria and etc. Among the tribes, Gonds are the largest group of tribal community of central India. 

Where Tribal Art is famous in India?

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Eco-friendly beautiful wood products are been loved by all age group people. India is being blessed with the Mother Nature and given several useful trees to get unique wood items from. Woodcraft is a standout among the most renowned delightful and extraordinary specialty of wooden cutting of Bastar tribals.

These wooden artworks are made out of the finest teak wood and white wood. These wooden specialties incorporate models, furniture things and so forth among the furniture, Deewan (Cot with box) is exceptionally celebrated and alluring. Since it includes the craft of cutting with various pictures of Bastar culture and different plans of intrigue. These crafted works are for the most part traded to better places of the nation, and these wood items are also been requested to be export to foreign countries.

Woodcraft from the tribal belt of Bastar is known for figures of tribal gods, cut wooden masks, and wall decorative items. Chhattisgarh is additionally well known for painted and lacquered wood item, for example, toys, boxes, bedposts, flower vase, candle holder cots.

Types of wooden handicrafts

The wooden handicrafts come in various forms of arts and culture. Different pieces of wooden artwork. In the forms of figures, sculptures have been made by the famous artisans of our country. The different art forms used for making decorative items were Warli, famous Dhokra art from West Bengal, Madhubani art form.  The variety of these handicrafts ranges from wooden fish hook to pipe stem to spoons and many more. It requires a lot of hard work and dedication. To carve a piece of wood and make something unique and beautiful out of it. The patterns and figures that are engraved on every piece of wood have a different story. 

Here are some types of techniques used for making wooden handicrafts. That are made for decorating your houses with furniture, showpieces, wooden frames etc.

Marquetry

Marquetry is one of the modern forms for making wooden handicrafts, it is a craft. That involves inserting pieces of material into the wood to create beautiful and detailed patterns. The items that are inserted include wood, ivory, metal etc. This results in a beautiful handmade wooden showpiece. The simplest marquetry only uses two slices of veneer which are temporarily stuck together. Marquetry is a modern form of craft that uses knives to cut thin wood slices. But as we all know that knife cutting is so much time consuming. So now most of the marquetry used a saw for cutting the veneer.

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Wood carving

Wood carvingis one of the oldest art forms for making decorative wooden products. It is the process of decorating wood by hand with the help of a sharp tool. Wood carving involves the use of various steps such as blocking, surfacing and smoothening. The tools may include chisels, v-tools and other carving tools. Wood carving is used for making various wooden figures, idols, even ornaments. The making of sculpture by wood carving art has been extremely widely practised.

Intarsia

Intarsia is woodcraft that is made by using a technique. That involves laying sections of wood inside furniture like walls and floors. The word ‘intarsia’ is derived from the Latin word ‘interserere’ which means “to insert”. This process gives the mosaic look. The word intarsia and the art form is still a mystery to many people. This art became famous during the 17th century when Egypt came under Arab rule.

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Game of Thrones Viking Horn Mugs

Viking society have a special place in Norse culture. They were highly respected, and they were entrusted with brewing ale for their family’s consumption! Essentially, it was up to them whether or not you got your daily dose of beer. By cooking food and brewing this delicious beverage, these Nordic ladies had all sorts of control over her home life. In addition to making sure that everyone drank enough water each day (and enjoyed some flavor!), there is evidence suggesting. That many brewers would also sell small portions as well – especially if she needed money on occasion!

As long as they had some mead, ale and beer, To keep them alive during their lengthy journeys at sea, the Vikings were all set. Fermented beverages are an easy way for raiding warriors like these guys on board a ship. To stay hydrated without having to stop every now and then for fresh water.

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Why should beer or mead be drunk from authentic Viking beer horns...and not from beer mugs?

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Not only is beer served in beer mugs, beer glasses, or beer steins, beer can also be drunk directly out of a traditional. Viking drinking horn or mead cup made from 100% real bovine ox horn material. I’ve seen people using Viking drinking horns as every day glasses and they seemed to like it – a lot! Hence the reason I began working at AleHorn. It’s really not about drinking from a horn, but having the fantasy feeling of drinking like a menacing Viking from the 790s.

THE STORY OF BEER AND MEAD IN VIKING

It quenched the thirst after the salty Viking food had been eaten. The Vikings drank strong beer at festive occasions, together with the popular drink of mead. Mead was a sweet, fermented drink made from honey, water and spices.

Viking Horn V/s Drinking Mugs

Viking Horn Mugs

The horn mugs are uniquely made in a traditional manner by steaming, shaping, and bending over the handles to make this stylish creation. This creative innovation for horn mugs stems back to the 18th century, where our mugs are handmade in a traditional horn factory in England. The Viking Dragon proudly continues the tradition by offering these classic horn mugs that impressed the producers of shows like ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Vikings’, and other semi-historical films to use them on set. In fact The Viking Dragon supplied 600 of these horn mugs to the production company of ‘Game of Thrones’. The Viking Dragon continues to supply these original horn mugs that are the same ones supplied to Game of Thrones for their feasting gear in the series. 

THE DRINKING HORN IN NORSE CULTURE

The relationship between the drinking horn and the afterlife is a less know connection. But it brings us to what is likely the most popular version of the drinking horn as we know it today. The drinking horn of the Vikings! And somehow, despite not being made of gold, or garnished with jewels, or crafted with legs and caps like some of the adaptations made by the early Christian church during that time. The Viking drinking horns are the ones we all imagine when the image is called to mind.

In Viking culture, drinking horns were a popular vessel for beer, wine, and of course mead, but unlike other cultures, like I mentioned before. They were not the gilded trophies of kings. They weren’t used in the symbolic burial of great warriors either. For the living, drinking horns were just cups, but as the traditions of the Norse people grew more vivid, possibly due to their interactions with the Greeks and Iron Celts, or possibly due to their isolation, the mysticism around mead and the horns that held it grew stronger as well.

VIKING BOOZE & MEAD MAGIC

Alcohol has been no stranger to any people of any age. At some point everyone either discovered fermentation by accident. Maybe by letting their gain barrels get filled with rainwater, or alcohol was introduced to them by an outside culture. Either way, we have been finding unique ways to brew alcohol. Since long before anyone can even remember. The earliest written recipe for beer has been credited to the Sumerians. It was found embedded in a poem written nearly 3,900 years ago. But while countries like China may have archeological evidence to prove that. They had been brewing beer for at least the last 5,000 years, it is the Norse. Who are credited with one of the most innovative methods of fermentation; the fermentation of honey.

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