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Profile of Warli Artisans of Maharashtra


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1 Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
     

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Tribal art generally reflects the creative energy found in rural areas that acts as an undercurrent to the craftsmanship of the tribal people.Over the years they have found worldwide appreciation and admiration from art connoisseurs. Warli painting is the famous folk art of Maharashtra.Warli is the name of the largest tribe found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai, in Western India. The present explorary study was conducted in Maharashtra as the higher concentration of the warli artisans found in Dhanu, Jawahar, Manor and Cosbad Villages of Thane distt. to assess the socioeconomic profile of warli artisans.

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Warli, Artisan, Socio, Profile, Motifs, Maharashtra.
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Authors

Sangeeta Vaishnav
Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India
Meenu Srivastava
Department of Textiles and Apparel Designing, College of Home Science, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur (Rajasthan), India

Abstract


Tribal art generally reflects the creative energy found in rural areas that acts as an undercurrent to the craftsmanship of the tribal people.Over the years they have found worldwide appreciation and admiration from art connoisseurs. Warli painting is the famous folk art of Maharashtra.Warli is the name of the largest tribe found on the northern outskirts of Mumbai, in Western India. The present explorary study was conducted in Maharashtra as the higher concentration of the warli artisans found in Dhanu, Jawahar, Manor and Cosbad Villages of Thane distt. to assess the socioeconomic profile of warli artisans.

Keywords


Warli, Artisan, Socio, Profile, Motifs, Maharashtra.

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