State to present brass, silver filigree crafts to hockey gamers

By Express News Service

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha will present two types of its handicrafts to the gamers in the course of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023. The  Odisha State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporation Ltd (Utkalika) is making ready brass and silver filigree mementoes which will probably be gifted to the gamers in the course of the matches.

Officials of the company mentioned round 400 hockey World Cup trophies are being ready utilizing brass as the bottom materials by state handicraft awardees of the state for the aim. These hockey trophy mementoes will probably be introduced in velvet packing containers. “Our craftspersons are working round-the-clock to finish the order of 400 brass trophies and these will be ready by January 13,” an official mentioned, including that the trophies will probably be ornamented ones for the added attraction.

Besides, Cuttack’s famed Tarakasi artisans have been roped in by the company to sculpt 50 items of Konark Sun temple wheels in pure silver.  Brass and bell craft within the state is practised in districts like Angul, Bargarh, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Khurda and Nayagarh. Both the brass and silver filigree are among the many state’s 51 accepted crafts.

This yr, although, there isn’t any handloom product included within the checklist of items for hockey gamers. During the final hockey World Cup in 2018, the federal government had gifted exquisitely designed Ikat stoles and mementoes – small World Cup trophies made in dokra and silver filigree – in packing containers embellished with lacquer craft.

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha will present two types of its handicrafts to the gamers in the course of the FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup 2023. The  Odisha State Cooperative Handicrafts Corporation Ltd (Utkalika) is making ready brass and silver filigree mementoes which will probably be gifted to the gamers in the course of the matches.

Officials of the company mentioned round 400 hockey World Cup trophies are being ready utilizing brass as the bottom materials by state handicraft awardees of the state for the aim. These hockey trophy mementoes will probably be introduced in velvet packing containers. “Our craftspersons are working round-the-clock to finish the order of 400 brass trophies and these will be ready by January 13,” an official mentioned, including that the trophies will probably be ornamented ones for the added attraction.

Besides, Cuttack’s famed Tarakasi artisans have been roped in by the company to sculpt 50 items of Konark Sun temple wheels in pure silver.  Brass and bell craft within the state is practised in districts like Angul, Bargarh, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jajpur, Khurda and Nayagarh. Both the brass and silver filigree are among the many state’s 51 accepted crafts.

This yr, although, there isn’t any handloom product included within the checklist of items for hockey gamers. During the final hockey World Cup in 2018, the federal government had gifted exquisitely designed Ikat stoles and mementoes – small World Cup trophies made in dokra and silver filigree – in packing containers embellished with lacquer craft.