Chennai: The famous Silver Cuttack filigree is set to get a geographical indication tag (GI), because Handis State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporation Ltd has sent applications for the same thing.
Some of Odissi jewelry, silver filigrees are decorative artifacts used as accessories or home decorations and as great works and cultures.
Crafts crafts are made after silver bricks are converted into a thin fine cable or foil, and then jewelry or showpieces are made.
Filigree traditionally associated with good workmanship and luxury design in classical jewelry, said attorney intellectual property (IPR) and advocating P Sanjai Gandhi, who has submitted it on behalf of the Odisha government.
The product line includes betel leaf, wallet, coffin, vermillion box, and dowry items.
The Jagannath temple model, Konark Temple and Mukteshwar Arch were also made and exhibited abroad as a visual miniature of art and Origsian Heritage.
The three-dimensional nature of the product made on the cuttack gives them realistic final results and makes it unique for the Cuttack cluster.
Durga Puja Medhas for Pandal Durga Puja in Cuttack, Chain Dama, Oditsi Jewelry and Prosecution / Culture directly related to Odisha’s habits, according to him.
Applicants have traced their origins to the 13th century to show the relationship of art history to the region.
The chain of Dama has features like a complicated mesh each other to make unlimited loops.
This sustainable loop collection is woven into a piece of jewelry.
Dama chains are only made by women.
There is no evidence of clear craft, but experts connect it with the influence of Persia, Indonesians, Mughal and even the Greeks, said Sanjai Gandhi.
Its existence since the 12th century has been confirmed, he said, adding that art has received quite large protection under Mughals.
In fact, historical records say “in Cuttack, Filigree work is generally carried out by boys, whose sensitive fingers, and cheener vision, allows them to place fine silver threats along with the speed and accuracy needed …,” he said , Filigree silver, as a crat, has switched through time, while remaining constant and together to adapt.
The core process of crafts has remained the same for centuries with only a few changes in tools and components, said Sanjai Gandhi.
Most products are made by hand, with limited workforce enhancers.
Raw materials such as silver, copper, zinc, cadmium and tin are used in certain ratios.
The product mix has given a cuttack cluster edge on another cluster, he said.
Odisha looking for GI tags for filigree silver
