‘Tis the season to be jolly and rejoice in the heat of Christmas. Homes have decked-up Christmas bushes with shimmering ornaments and twinkling lights as baubles gleam like captured reminiscences suspended in time.
This 12 months, artists, craftpreneurs, eco-conscious teams and enterprises are celebrating sustainable creations with picket ornaments, fabric baubles, paper bells and stars and environment-friendly Christmas DIY kits. Here, we current some people and manufacturers.
Potli
Tholu Bommalata Christmas package by Potli.
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Seamlessly mixing creativity with world traditions, Potli’s DIY kits for Christmas are a slice of conventional Indian crafts neatly packed in a field. The block-print package allows you to make your individual snowman storybook and others embrace the tholu bomalata (shadow leather-based puppetry) Christmas puppet making package and Christmas hanging package with Gond artwork. Potli’s choices foster a deep connection with craftsmanship and a dedication to a greener and extra eco-conscious celebration.
One of the oldest artwork types of Andhra Pradesh, the tholu bomalata package is its newest providing that has Christmas decorations in parchment leather-based, which can be utilized as puppets that glow in opposition to mild.
“The integration of Indian traditional crafts and arts with Christmas festivities not only enhances the visual appeal of the celebrations but also promotes cultural understanding, inclusivity and the preservation of valuable heritage. This is our way to celebrate the richness of global traditions and create meaningful connections between different cultures,” says Pooja Ratnakar, founding father of Potli. Started by Pooja, an NIFT graduate, in 2008, Potli’s goal is to protect the creative heritage of India by mixing conventional methods with modern design.
Potli kits are obtainable at potli.org
Gulab Tribe
A baby paints a Christmas tree set from Gulab Tribe.
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Shilpanjani Dantu’s enterprise Gulab Tribe is a social enterprise aimed toward kids, with a ardour for preserving India’s cultural heritage. The focus is on Etikopakka, picket toys handcrafted by expert artisans of a quaint village in Andhra Pradesh. Last 12 months, when Shilpanjani participated in a world expo in Italy with the Etikopakka Christmas tree assortment and different picket toys, she was greeted with a heat response for her merchandise that are rooted in sustainability.
“There is a growing demand for environment friendly traditional wooden toys in the international market and more and more people are looking to celebrate the spirit of Christmas while minimising their carbon footprint. The Etikopakka toys serve as decorative products and can be reused every year,” says Shilpanjani. Gulab Tribe’s Christmas choices embrace an exercise set of 5 Etikopakka Christmas bushes which might be painted; and a forest tree set of 5 which are painted with pure dyes like turmeric, jaffra seeds, indigo, myrobalan, jaggery and manjistha. These toys are skillfully crafted from Wrightia Tinctoria wooden, often known as ivory wooden or white wooden. “This lightweight and durable material is responsibly sourced by either using fallen trees or chopping the branches. The regenerative nature of these trees to regrow their branches ensures a continuous supply of this valuable resource, while also eliminating the prospect of deforestation,” says Shilpanjani, who works carefully with two items of Etikopakka artisans.
To order, go to them on Instagram @gulabtribe
Dash Decor
Christmas decor by Decor Dash.
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P Tejani’s enterprise Dash Decor has a set not generally present in native markets. These are sourced from numerous elements of Southeast Asia. Made of resin, ceramic and wooden, the merchandise embrace miniature nativity units, snowman in numerous sizes, Santa ceramic bowls, reindeer bell and bowl, sheep butter tray, a 23-centimetre tall Christmas tree décor with lights, a 12-centimetre picket gramophone with music and magnets and hanging decor.
“Most of the decorations at local markets are plastic ones and once damaged, end up in trash cans. My idea was to offer a carefully-curated Christmas decor which also serve as collectibles and have vintage value as well,” says Tejani.
They additionally inventory Santa Claus collectible figurines, in large, small and mini sizes, which in accordance with Tejani are fairly in style and so are the nativity units which are offered out this season.
Tejani’s buyer base is usually in Kerala, Karnataka and Goa together with rising markets of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Instagram deal with @dashdecor
Upcycled by Manasa
Paper craft Santa by Manasa Priya in Visakhapatnam.
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Paper snow globes, snowflake playing cards, decoupage soya candles – Manasa Priya’s Christmas craft basket is beaming with creativity. Manasa has been busy with Christmas workshops in Visakhapatnam the place she helps contributors make Christmas decorations with paper, engineered wooden merchandise, with a splash of creativity. “This year, I made a small Santa Claus with 220 GSM paper which holds a chocolate. This is a popular return gift option for Christmas,” she says. Her collections embrace jute potli in vibrant crimson which might be customised with names, tree ornaments like sweet cane, gingerbread artificial with paper and different setting pleasant merchandise. “These products can be reused. You also get the satisfaction of making your own decorations,” says Manasa.
Check out her works at @upcyledbymanasa_vizag on Instagram