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Bhutanese Arts and Crafts is best experienced in the Zorig Chusum(Thirteen traditional crafts).The following categories attribute to Bhutan’s magnificent glory of Arts and Crafts. Woodwork, stone arts, wood carving, painting, clay sculpting, casting, wood turning, black -smithy, gold smithy, bamboo and rattan crafts, paper making, embroidery, appliqué and weaving .The Arts and Crafts are mostly religious and spiritual in character. The skills of the Bhutanese artisans are so vivid in the handicrafts that, it never fails to amaze visitors to the kingdom. These skills are the evidence of hundreds of years of knowledge, skill and ability inherited down the generations. Each and every handicraft and work of art is hand made. Every region is renowned for a particular skill or product owing to the abundance of resources for production of local Arts and Crafts. Most Bhutanese art is anonymous. Whether carving a statue or painting a scroll, the Bhutanese artist is, so to speak, enacting a spiritual exercise, and the thought of name or fame is indeed far from his mind. |
