There
is a complete plethora of traditional arts & crafts of Kolkata. The
reservoir of Calcutta arts & crafts is very large and encompasses
exquisite floor and wall paintings and items made from bamboo, cane,
shola, conch-shell, ivory and bell metal etc. Read on to know more about
arts and crafts of Calcutta India… Folk art represents such items that are made by the people of different communities in order to satisfy their own social, cultural, religious and aesthetic needs. To say for example, floor paintings popularly known as alpana, are made as a part of socio-cultural practices. On the other hand, there are chal chitra paintings that are made on canvas for religious purposes but they also serve as means of livelihood.
Arts and crafts of Calcutta can be broadly classified into the following categories: