Probashi- Handicraft
Probashi- Handicraft
Magic With Shell
Magic with Shell
A hint of hesitation tinged with a
gush of success is how we would describe the voice of this seemingly ordinary person . That this person from a non‐country would one day represent descript part of this
India and bring laurels back home in his chosen field of endeavour seemed a bit improbable . He is Robi Nandi , a shell master craftsman . His dexterity has taken him across the globe , but who finds himself at experience . Robi Nandi has put in winning of more accolades for the home in Bishnupur , a small town in that effort , however that meant that country . Bankura District of West Bengal he had to truncate his formal
It is because of the likes of Robi which is known for shell work education when in first year of
Nandi that Bishnupur is known as across the country and the globe . college . The demands on his time the Mecca of shell work in the
PROBASHI spoke to Robi Nandi over when apprenticing did not leave country . Here craftsmen create phone and this article is based on enough bandwidth for studies . But unique shell jewelry which is then that conversation . that perseverance paid off , his talent exported to all parts of India and got recognition . Years ago still
Robi now aged sixty , is regarded as abroad . The raw material for shell young , at the fair organized by West the best shell artisan in the country , work is not found locally but comes Bengal Handicrafts
Council , his whose workmanship has found from Rameshwaram and Tuticorin . creation , a crown made of shell , got recognition internationally . Robi
The best shell pieces are handled by top honors . The next feather on the inherited this art as part of family master craftsmen which go into cap was pinned at the craft legacy . He has traversed one making of high end handcrafter competition organized by
All India milestone after another with items and conch shells . The scrap
Handicrafts Board , where Robi was consummate skill and creativity and pieces are converted into cheap awarded the top prize , the genius of held on tenaciously to shell craft . jewellery by trainee craftsmen .
Robi Nandi was firmly established , He is amongst the few vanguards he was now amongst the elite It is curious that how shell work got who have kept this art form alive . handicraft craftsmen ( women ) in the established in Bishnupur . The kings When we mention shelll , the first country , well on his way to stardom . of the Malla dynasty whose capital recall in our minds is that of conch was Bishnupur were patrons of arts It did not take long for the invite shell which is blown to mark an and invited shell artisans from letter to arrive from the All India auspicious occasions . Shell is found Orissa to settle in Bishnupur . Thus
Handcraft Board requesting Robi to in water , and water is also the tradition of shell work found participate at the International considered the nursery which roots here .
Handicraft Fair in London , nurtured the first life form . The call considered the Olympics of the Shell handicrafts have a good of the conch shell therefore is handicraft sector . The handicraft domestic and international market . considered as advent of life . board was sending India ’ s best Robi Nandi has a power lesson for Crystal shell is associated with craftsman to this competition with us
, he says ” Never try to belittle the
Goddess Laxmi and it is said that an expectation of success . Robi did work of others rather try to excel crystal shell if kept at home would not disappoint , his creation of the 10 yourself ”. Till artisan ’ s likes of Robi bring prosperity . Translucent shell is avatars of Vishnu in shells got him Nandi remain dedicated to their used to craft exquisite jewellery , a the first prize which was handed to craft , shell work has a chance of specialty of Robi Nandi . Crafting of him by the then British Prime survival . jewellery from shell requires Minister Margaret Thatcher . Robi
Researched and written by the Probashi dexterity and concentration which Nandi had made the tricolor fly high . Editorial Team , coordinated by Mamani comes from years of training and This lead to more foreign trips and Pal