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Range of sarees, jewellery, wood carvings on offer
Array of products: Customers take a look at Orissa Ekat sarees at the art and craft exhibition in Puducherry on Sunday. PUDUCHERRY: Handicrafts, handlooms and jewellery from Orissa, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh are on display at a ten-day sale, on from April 12, here. The Utkal Hastasipla Society, along with Jaipur Textiles, Chennai, has organised the Orissa Crafts Utsav exhibition-cum-sale. The sale offers visitors a range of sarees, handloom dress materials, jewellery, wood carvings and paintings to choose from. “This is our second exhibition-cum-sale in Puducherry. We held a similar sale a year ago,” Bhagirath Kumar, in-charge said. The cost of sarees, including Pittol sarees, bomkei sarees, sambalpuri, tussar and ekat, ranges from Rs.360 to Rs.10,000. Silver jewellery, including chains and bangles with embedded stones, are available. Paintings from Orissa ranging from Rs.250 to Rs.5,000 are on display. Palm leaf engravings, wall hangings, leather bags and several other crafts are also on offer. The sale also has folk paintings, known as pattachitra or picture on canvas. Apart from these, kurtas, bed sheets, door curtains and variety of dress materials are on sale. “We hold such exhibition-cum-sales in Chennai, Bangalore, Mysore and Andhra Pradesh,” he said. The sale was inaugurated by Senior Superintendent of Police B. Srikanth and will be on till April 21 at S.S. Thirumana Mandapam, 67, S.V. Patel Salai.
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