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Calico Museum Of Textiles
Established in 1948, the Calico Museum of Textiles is undoubtedly one of India's leading museums for textiles. Its superb collection of textiles is further enhanced by a fine collection of pichhwais and patachitras (paintings on cloth). The museum is housed in two buildings, one displaying textiles of religious significance and the other traditional court fabrics, tents, carpets and constumes.
The museum presents its collection in themes connected with the two great Indian religions: Vaishnavism and Jainism, and simulates a suitable religious atmosphere. The first exhibit is a replica of a small reconstructed Pustimarga shrine with an idol of Srinathji placed on an altar, covered with a painted textile. The shrine leads to galleries where pichwais and textiles belonging to the Vallabha Set are displayed. The 90 pichwais are divided into groups relating to festivals, seasons and a variety of devotional themes.
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The Jain Gallery includes shrines, derasarai of the Svetambara and Digambara sects as well as a small home shrine, important manuscripts like the kalpasutra and kalakakatha and Jain Patas: the yantras, and tirtha chitras. The main attraction, however, is a painted, domed, wooden ceiling of a derasarai.
Three buildings with traditional carved wooden facades located around the chowk house the courtly or secular pieces like carpets, embroidered and decorated shamianas, wall hangings and costumes. There is an excellent display of phulkaris from Punjab, Kalamkaris from Andhra and saris. A significant gallery presents the different weaving techniques with the help of samples, technical notes and their relation to the different sects.
Calico Museum of Textiles
Ahmedabad.
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Utensils Museum
Surendra Patel, an interior designer by profession, has set up, on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, a quaint rural complex where visitors can savour authentic Gujarati village cuisine, before wandering through the grounds to see a museum devoted to Indian untensils.
Collected from all over India, the endeavour is to demonstrate the purity of form and shape in these objects of utility. The pot to store water in, utensils to cook and serve in, spoons, rollings pins, a huge vessel in which buttermilk was churned, each object is beautifully conceived and created to prove that beauty lay not only in the large and the splendid but also in the simple objects of everyday use.
The artisan created each piece for a specific purpose and this catered to a person's every need including worship.
Utensils Museum
Vechaar Vishalla Environmental Centre
Opp. Vasama Toll Maka
Ahmedabad
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