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The Kalamkari art includes
both, printing and painting. The
colors used in making these
paintings are organic. Most of
the colors are prepared using
parts of plants – roots, leaves
along with mineral salts of
iron, tin, copper, alum, etc.,
which are used as mordants.
There are numerous forms
and styles of this type of
painting throughout the Indian
subcontinent.
The term kalamkari literally
means ‘work done with a pen.’
The term is now inseparably
attached to the painted and
block-printed cotton and silk
textiles, produced in the
Coromandel Coast (parts of
Andhra Pradesh and Tamil
Nadu) of India. Today, two of
the most prominent centres
of kalamkari production
are Srikalahasti (Chittoor
District) and Machilipatnam
(Krishna District) in
Andhra Pradesh. While in
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