Paddy Craft

Dhana Murti or unpeeled rice grain idols are distinctive to this region. This is made using three key elements; rice grains, bamboo slivers and colored threads. The bamboo slivers are primarily soaked in turmeric water and dried in the sun to make them more pliable. Then the children loop the rice grains intricately between two thin bamboo slivers using colored cotton threads alone. Then the men sit to fold and coil the rice sticks into various forms creating both objects and idols.

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