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A two-day accumulation of handlooms and handicrafts, being organised by the Crafts Council of A.P. (CCAP), was inaugurated by Mavuri Venkata Ramana of CMR Group astatine edifice Green Park present connected Monday.
Etikoppaka artisan Santosh Kumar was felicitated connected the occasion.
The accumulation showcases exquisite sarees and dresses by designers and weavers from antithetic parts of the country. Well-known names from the textile tract similar Bandhani , Kalamkari, Kota, Patan Patola, linens, Chanderi and Maheshwari, and handicrafts similar delicate manus embroidery, juttis, bangles, bluish pottery and kansam utensils are connected show astatine the expo.
Crafts Council of Andhra Pradesh is simply a nonprofit moving to revitalise craft, embroidery and weaving traditions. To enactment artisans and tally payment schemes for them, exhibitions similar ‘Vasantham’ are organised annually.
The assembly has implicit 80 members betwixt Visakhapatnam and Vijaywada. Besides the yearly exhibitions, CCAP conducts trade classes for municipal schools, workshops for artisans, tract visits to distant trade villages and aesculapian camps for weaver and artisan communities. Currently, CCAP focuses connected supporting creation and craft, which has been successful diminution since the pandemic. The expo volition beryllium unfastened to the nationalist from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. connected Tuesday arsenic well.
