How To Identify A Hand Painted Kalamkari Saree From A Screen-Printed Kalamkari.
The world has become fast-moving and a costly place to live in! Although we as humans appreciate art and human touch in every object we look at, we tend to incline towards things that are fast and cheap. The fashion industry, especially the handloom saree market is not an exception here. It has been hard hit by this fact and the artisans suffer from huge losses since their handicraft skills are marked as overrated and people have started preferring the easy, bulk and cheap machine-produced power loom sarees over original, handcrafted, and unique handloom or handcrafted sarees. The World of Kalamkari: The original Kalamkari saree is handpainted in Srikalahasti and its hand-block printed counterpart is mainly done in Machilipatnam. But nowadays screen printed kalamkari on poor quality fabrics are ruling the world! Unable to identify the original ones, people settle for the screen-printed variety. The Uniqueness of Handpainted Kalamkari Sarees : Starting f...