How To Use Handcrafts To Create Unique Home Decor Items

India, one of the countries with a wide and authentic selection of handicrafts or handmade artworks, is ranked among the top culturally wealthy countries. In this line of employment, artisans use their remarkable hand talents to create beautiful goods from a variety of natural raw materials.

The Indian market has a wide variety of handcrafted home decor items available, including bamboo baskets, handmade paintings, and traditional embroidered cushion coverings. The most popular varieties of Indian handicrafts are listed in this catalogue along with ideas for how to use them as decor pieces.

• Brass Handicraft Items 

Made of copper and zinc, brass is a durable metal. It is eye-catching due to the golden tint it reflects. Furthermore, objects constructed of brass do not tarnish easily. Because of these qualities, brass is a preferred material for making and purchasing handcrafted home decor items, particularly during the holiday season.

Figurines of God or animals, kitchenware, centre table accents, and jewellery boxes are frequently found in brass crafts. Rajasthan is where the majority of brass products are produced, and artisans who work there are known as "Kansas" in India.

• Pottery 

India today has a wide variety of ceramic styles that date back to the Harappa Civilization. On the one hand, Uttar Pradesh is renowned for its orange, light red, and brown earthenware, whereas North India is recognized for its basic terracotta earthenware in the colours of dark red and black. Then there are the potters from Rajasthan who use geometric designs. Vases, flower pots, and serving utensils are common examples of pottery objects used in home design.

• Wooden Handicraft Items 

India's northern and northeastern states are renowned across the world for their walnut handicrafts. Similarly to this, South Indian states are well-recognized for their rosewood and sandalwood crafts.

There are many wooden home decor items available for purchase, including bowls, ornament boxes, candle stands, toy carts, bangle holders, table mats, animal sculptures, and even vermillion small boxes. Indian painters are highly prized for their mastery of intricate hand carving.

• Dhokra Handicraft 

The non-iron metal case technique, also known as Dhokra craftsmanship, has a 4000-year history. Although it is a traditional Madhya Pradesh art, Dhokra-inspired home décor items are now also made in West Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa in the east.

Dhokra handicraft items are frequently on display in art and craft exhibits held throughout India. An ancient Mohenjo-Daro dancing girl artefact is one of the earliest Dhokra artefacts. The other product line comprises, among many other things, bowls, candle stands, ashtrays, owls, horses, elephants, and tortoises.

• Tribal/Rural Paintings 

A vast array of handcrafted home decor items are made up of rural paintings like Kalamkari from Andhra Pradesh, Madhubani from Bihar, and tribal paintings like Bhil from Rajasthan and Gond from Central India. These paintings are offered as framed wall art, hand-painted fabric motifs, showpieces, etc.