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Horn Work
Parlakhemundi and cuttack are famous for the horn work, created out of cow and buffalo horns to skillfully produced ash-trays, jewellery and figures of birds and animals. Excellent pottery is also produced in these places.
Applique
Applique in Orissa is an old temple art, which has been refined to a perfection. A fine example of the craft is the enormous applique canopies above the reigning deity of Puri, Lord Jagannath. Applique art is the process of cutting coloured cloth into shapes of animals, birds, flowers, leaves and other decorative motifs and stitching them on to a piece of cloth that can ultimately be used as a lamp shade, a hand bag or even a garden umbrella. The village of Pipli, close to Bhubaneswar, is the site of beautiful applique work, created by artists, quite a few of whom have won national awards for their crafts.
Metal Craft
Metal craft has reached a great deal of perfection in Orissa with some truly indigenous designs emerging from its craftsmen's skills. Bell-metal and brasswork are carried out throughout the state, with craftsmen churing out numerous religious and household utensils. Lamp bells, ornate with thnic designs are quite lovely. The traditional dhokra work is a typical tribal craft in bronze with its meshlike features ging it its distinctive beauty. The tribal families in Sadiberini, a village near dhenkanal town, produce this unusual craft familiar in items like boxes, gods, goddesses and lamps.image...more image
Miscellanea
Orissa's market places are a veritable treasure trove fot the visitor. Apart from pata paintings, applique items, metal wonders and silver filigree works, there is an excellent selection of wooden and stone carvings of gods, goddesses, masks, toys, lacquer products and papier mache goods.image
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