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Sohrai Khovar painting
May 16 , 2020
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- Recently, Jharkhand’s Sohrai Khovar painting and Telangana’s Telia Rumal have been given the Geographical Indication (GI) tag.
- The Sohrai Khovar painting is a traditional and ritualistic mural art.
- A mural is any piece of artwork painted or applied directly on a wall, ceiling or other permanent surfaces.
- Telia Rumal Handloom involves art of Ikat tradition using natural vegetable dyes.
- Ikat is a dyeing technique used to pattern textiles.
- Telia Rumals were worn as a veil by princesses at the erstwhile court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, and as a turban cloth by Arabs in the Middle East.
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