Unfortunately I have lost the history I discovered about this ancient Indian art form
and I can't get the youtube to copy: http://youtu.be/HzOKxPhXTiE
if you copy and paste the link into your browser you can find two videos;
if you use the name below you will have to scroll down to find the art videos.
Creating pictures using small pieces of straw
is an exacting skill that requires not only a discerning eye for choosing and
mixing the right shades of straw, but artists with immense patience and with
hands that have deft fingers to transform straw into gold. Narrow strips of
differently-colored straw are selected and sorted out and each individual piece
is cut to the right size with a primitive spear shaped instrument and glued
together by hand on to a crepe silk canvas with gum arabic (tree sap). No artificial
color, dye or paint is added to the natural color of the rice straw. Each
picture has several hundreds of thousands of straw pieces carefully handpicked
to reach the required shade and depth. This art is made by a very small group
of artisans in villages of South India whose unique skills have been preserved
over the centuries from generation to generation.
The Japanese have a history of using Rice Straw in their Titani mats and in sculptures.
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