Be Rustic & Feel Rustic – The Elegant Life Of Santiniketan In Bolpur, West Bengal! [Part-2]

The open air study concept that he introduced under a magnificently huge banyan tree called ‘TEEN PAHADI’ or the three mountains it even looks like it has got three different levels how lucky that tree is even & it must have so many tales to tell in silence all embedded in his broad chest… the parks & gardens are in full bloom enriched with the aroma of life…

The majestic trees of campus, signifying the centre tree name ‘TEEN PAHADI’ along with the bell which rings for every period…

The other face of Bolpur comes into furore is the mind-blowing local craftsmanship, ranging from a handful of soil turned into a speaking idol or the pure cotton clothes darned with beautiful ‘kantha stitch’, the world-famous ‘batik’ or the small idols made out of burned clay similarly other show pieces could speak for your signature style if we adorn our houses with them, all the wall hangings & decorative articles speaks volumes for themselves, the paramount of positive aura that it brings unto your home is beyond measure.

The textiles comprising of sarees, shawls, wrapups and much much more… all adorned by different forms of hand made stitches…

The textile industry is vast enabling many a locals to earn their bread & butter, the handloom industry all finished work done here itself, if only one could watch how painstakingly, time consuming work it is completed with such perfection even the minutest of details can be traced in a ‘saree’ when some mythological story is told through stitches or vegetable dyed paintings, or block printing everything is just perfect & speaks for itself…

to be continued…

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