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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 Srikalahasti, the
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