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| B'ful Gulmohar trees in the city |
After a few trips in various
Weaver’s villages in Orissa, my next destination was ‘Badabag’ village in
Jagatsinghpur. Rented a cab and pinx and me were off to yet another beautiful
village of Odisha (India)
8.15 am: Started from Bhubaneswar
9.00 am: Cuttack
9.40 am: Karkatpur
I love villages; it brings back
many good memories to me. The good smelling earth, the fresh air, open fields
and sleeping in the open. There is something superb about food being cooked on
the chulah (open mud stove) hmmm :)
10.25 am: Reached Jagatsinghpur
(Badabag Village)
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| Beautiful old style wood engravings |
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| Nasty roads on the way |
Talking, sleeping and partially
enjoying the view outside the window we reached the village. We were here
majorly because of my sister’s work and then a little for me to photograph that
I was very eager of. There was an old weavers society established that we had
to visit. One old man welcomed us and we got seated. She discussed and saw
fabrics what was related to her Textile work. I observed and clicked few snaps.
The place seemed dark kind of with old traditional style of almirah’s and door
carvings.
The textiles are all of very beautiful colors. See! Aren't they! These are
such beautiful and pretty colors from
earthen to bright fabrics. I choose few for my craft work and few to make my
Dupatta ;) (She bought a good amount of all of those)
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| Few Sarees in Basic colors |
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| The beautiful wall paintings done by powdered rice water |
11.20 am: It was getting sunnier
and we went out to roam the village. It now had cement roads, some semi
cement-brick homes, some completely cement homes. Few were mud ones and few mud
and bricks. After the super cyclone the villagers have very strictly made their
homes from cement to be safe. Good step indeed. But then the traditions aren’t
lost. Same small pathways, greenery, ponds in between, kids playing in the
open, women and men together working, cows and calves tied around, and one
scene I always see in a village and that is parakeets in a cages. :/
Sis talked to the villagers and we
visited few weavers home. There were looms set inside their homes or else in
their front yard where there is sufficient light to work. Visiting, meeting,
talking of work went on. In between the kids all followed and played around us
in addition to getting photographed. :D We enjoyed with them too :)
In a weavers home the man and the
women equally contribute to this beautiful worked textile. In fact generation
by generation it’s inherited and transferred and families help in their work
and business flow. There are lots of tasks involved like dyeing the material, drying, arranging the wraps and wefts and weaving…quite difficult
for one man to handle!
The rest of the tour continued
with the scenic views and interacting with the village people and the surrounding
nature. Villages are beautiful and sustainable in their own. There is nothing
like people are poor here or not happy. They just have a different way of
living and happy in their own way. But yes there are necessities like schooling
and medical aids that might be difficult to seek.
12.30pm: After an hour we backed
to the office. They were all into conversation while the fabrics we selected
were packed to be taken home and so we started our journey back.
It rained on our way back and the
weather got very pleasing and comforting.
By 1.00 pm we were home
(Bhubaneswar)
Few snapshots of the journey:
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| The Hand-loom |
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| The ready to use dyed threads |
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| The beautiful saree |
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| The half spun stole- I particularly loved this one |
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