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Unit-VII
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Handicrafts
Handicraft is a process in which skilled people create many types of decorative pieces using cloth,
clay, rock, paper, stone, and other materials using their hands.
Write the names of the following forms of Indian handicrafts using the Help Box.
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It literally means “flower It is an intricate embroidery It is a type of hand-painted or
pattern”. It was historically technique made with block-printed cotton textile.
practiced by the women of metallic threads.
Punjab.
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It is an embroidery work It means “baked earth”. It It is a type of silver filigree
done on fine white cotton is unglazed or glazed clay- work that belongs to Cuttack,
material with white cotton based ceramic that is used a city in Odisha.
thread. to make sculptures.
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Zardozi, Kalamkari, Chikankari, Phulkari, The history of Indian handicrafts is more
Terracotta, Tarakasi than 5,000 years old.
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