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The document discusses the need to establish a crafts center in India to promote handicrafts and handlooms. It aims to provide artisans and weavers a place to exhibit and sell their products, as well as preserve traditional crafts. The objectives are to create a platform for artisans to interact with the public, and boost marketing of products domestically and internationally. This will help generate employment and prevent the loss of craft skills. The center will explore traditional materials and structures to create an atmosphere in harmony with nature.

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Synopsis: Crafts Center

The document discusses the need to establish a crafts center in India to promote handicrafts and handlooms. It aims to provide artisans and weavers a place to exhibit and sell their products, as well as preserve traditional crafts. The objectives are to create a platform for artisans to interact with the public, and boost marketing of products domestically and internationally. This will help generate employment and prevent the loss of craft skills. The center will explore traditional materials and structures to create an atmosphere in harmony with nature.

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SYNOPSIS

CRAFTS CENTER

1.1 BACKGROUND
India is a country of rich culture, history and traditions. India is one of the
major producer and supplier of Handicrafts and Handloom products in the world.
India has been major producer and supplier of these products since very long
time. Before the industrial development, this art and industry was a potential
economic advantage for the country.

ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT


The birth of the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain in the late 19th century
marked the beginning of a change in the value society placed on how things were
made. This was a reaction to not only the damaging effects of industrialisation but
also the relatively low status of the decorative arts. Arts and Crafts reformed the
design and manufacture of everything from buildings to jewellery.

Structured more by a set of ideals than a prescriptive style, the Movement took its
name from the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, a group founded in London in
1887 that had as its first president the artist and book illustrator Walter Crane.
The Society's chief aim was to assert a new public relevance for the work of
decorative artists (historically they had been given far less exposure than the work of
painters and sculptors).

The Great Exhibition of 1851 and a few spaces such as the Refreshment Rooms of
the South Kensington Museum in the 1860s had given decorative artists the chance to
show their work publicly, but without a regular showcase they were struggling to
exert influence and to reach potential customers.
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society mounted its first annual exhibition in 1888,
showing examples of work it hoped would help raise both the social and intellectual
status of crafts including ceramics, textiles, metalwork and furniture.

. For many years in Britain exhibitions mounted by the Society were the only public
platform for the decorative arts, and were critical in changing the way people looked
at manufactured objects.

1.2 DEFINITION OF HANDICRAFTS


Handicrafts can be defined as products which are produced either completely by
hand or with the help of tools. Mechanical tools may be used as long as the direct
manual contribution of the artisan remains the most substantial component of the
finished product.
Handicrafts are made from raw materials and can be produced in unlimited
numbers. Such products can be utilitarian, aesthetic, artistic, creative, culturally
attached, decorative, functional, traditional, religiously and socially symbolic and
significant.

1.3 NEED FOR STUDY


India’s handicrafts and handlooms are facing a slump. Artisans, Skilled weavers
and other handcrafted textile makers are losing jobs and livelihoods as machines
took over handicraft and handloom production. The jobs instead became low pay,
menial factory work with workers, including children, facing long hours and
dangerous conditions in factories

India's handicrafts and handloom industry can spin magic yarns for both domestic
buyers and connoisseurs across the globe. The potential as well as scope for Indian
handicrafts and hand woven textiles in the domestic and international markets is huge.
We can be the world leaders.

We have some passionate art and craft lovers, but the majority open their eyes to their
own wealth of craft only when foreigners start appreciating it. We have allowed the
aesthetic sensibilities developed by our traditional artisans to be debased by chasing
after western products, fashion and style. On the other side, weavers are committing
suicide in various places like Andhra Pradesh, Varanasi etc.

1.4 AIM

The vision of making the handloom and handicraft industry of Andhra Pradesh
market oriented and promoting for generating productive employment.

1.5 OBJECTIVES
 To set up a crafts centre, to develop and promote the handicrafts and
handlooms and to provide necessary help to weavers, artisans and
entrepreneurs for boosting their marketing activities in domestic as well as
international markets and carry forward the tradition of Andhra Pradesh and
neighboring areas.
 To create a common platform for the artisans, weavers to produce, interact
with public, exhibit their work, trade, share the aesthetic values, endeavors,
techniques and approaches.
 To make the centre user attention by looking into psychological, physiological,
social and recreational aspects.

1.6 SCOPE
 Exploring the different structural systems and traditional materials for the
construction to create an atmosphere in harmony with nature.
 To study the culture and history of Andhrapradesh.
 Provision of effective user and access orientation through concise, comprehensive
directional design and graphics.

1.7 LIMITATIONS
 Advanced Services pertaining to the design will not be included.
 Auditorium design and details will not be provided.
 Only a theoretical understanding of structure and materials will be attempted.
Construction Detailing and Structural Detailing will not be given.
 Operational and maintenance costs would not be studied

1.8 METHODOLOGY
LITERARTURE STUDY
 To understand how crafts centres have been evolved.
 To study the importance of the crafts and artisans.
 Artisans welfares, handloom schemes and policies.
 To understand the various types of spaces to be included in the centre.
 To read on types of temporary and permanent structures and their capabilities.
 To gather information on the history and culture of Andhra Pradesh and
understand how it can be reflected in a design.
 Understanding the user flow using syntax theory.

DATA COLLECTION
 To gather the required space standards and anthropometric data required for the
design.

CASE STUDIES
 Dilli Haat , janakpuri.
 Dilli Haat, ina.
 Trade Facilitation Centre and Crafts Museum, Varnasi.

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