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    Mud ND Mirror Art of Kutch

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    Lippan kam is a decorative folk art from the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. It involves creating designs using a mixture of clay and camel dung on the walls of mud huts, with small mirrors embedded to reflect light. Common women, especially from the Harijan and Rabari communities, craft birds, trees, animals and human figures. The art involves pressing mirror pieces into slightly raised lines of wet mud to create simple but original designs using only white materials and mirrors.

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    Lippan kam is a decorative folk art from the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. It involves creating designs using a mixture of clay and camel dung on the walls of mud huts, with small mirrors embedded to reflect light. Common women, especially from the Harijan and Rabari communities, craft birds, trees, animals and human figures. The art involves pressing mirror pieces into slightly raised lines of wet mud to create simple but original designs using only white materials and mirrors.

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    Lippan kam is a decorative folk art from the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. It involves creating designs using a mixture of clay and camel dung on the walls of mud huts, with small mirrors embedded to reflect light. Common women, especially from the Harijan and Rabari communities, craft birds, trees, animals and human figures. The art involves pressing mirror pieces into slightly raised lines of wet mud to create simple but original designs using only white materials and mirrors.

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    Mud ND Mirror Art of Kutch

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    Lippan kam is a decorative folk art from the Kutch region of Gujarat, India. It involves creating designs using a mixture of clay and camel dung on the walls of mud huts, with small mirrors embedded to reflect light. Common women, especially from the Harijan and Rabari communities, craft birds, trees, animals and human figures. The art involves pressing mirror pieces into slightly raised lines of wet mud to create simple but original designs using only white materials and mirrors.

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    INDIA, STUFF MADE OF FOLKLORE

    MUD ART OF KUTCH


    08/10/2007 DESIGNFLUTE 68 COMMENTS

    Lippan kam or mud-mirror work


    Lippan (roughly translated-mud washing in Gujarati language and the spelling should be
    lipan)

    kam (is work in Hindi and Gujarati)

    Lippan kam is a decorative art done by common people mainly women.

    Lippan kam is done inside bhungas/mud huts in villages of Kutch, Gujarat.


    Lippan kam is generally done inside the house but sometimes you can find it on outer walls
    too.

    Generally harijan and Rabari women make birds, trees, animals, peacock, human figures etc
    in lippan kam.

    It is done with a mixture of clay and camel dung. Now gum is used to stick mirrors.

    Originality of lippan kam lies in adding no colour or only whites.(You may get few pieces of
    very colourful mud-mirror work in export houses online; exotic pieces but I wont call it
    lippan kam!)

    Small round, diamond-shaped or tringle mirror pieces are essential to lippan kam. Many a
    times mirror pieces are a little embroidered.

    It is simple technique, anyone can do it.


    Can you see slightly raised mud lines-spread with hands.
    You just need to use the thumb with two fingers! ?

    See the embroidered mirror here ?

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