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Lighting up the festive season
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This year's festive terracotta lamps and diyas offer a feast for the eyes with their varied contours and silhouettes at various outlets in the city.
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AS EVER Nachiarkoil's traditional brass kuthuvilakkus, beautiful branch lamps, the auspicious Gaja Lakshmi, Annam and Saraswathi Lamps along with a wealth of agal diyas welcome the festival of Karthigai at Poompuhar's (108, Anna Salai) exhibition of Festival Lamps.
Crafted with a fine eye to detail, the 500 varieties of lamps include a superb, specially crafted 9 ft. tall branch lamp.
The lamp features bells and deepams hanging from the gracefully curving branches at various levels, creating visual magic!
The exhibition also offers a variety of hanging lamps, `thoonda' lamps, `ratha deepams', arathi thalis, navagraha lamps and much else. Crafted at Poompuhar's units in Nachiarkoil, the lamp collection is moderately priced and encapsulates in its every line and curve, the best of traditional craftsmanship.
This year's festive terracotta lamps and diyas offer a feast for the eyes with their varied contours and silhouettes, the use of innovative concepts and shapes and the use of vibrant colours.
While Poompuhar's collection of `jigna' and mirror encrusted, zari embellished diyas come in the shape of beautiful mobiles, horses and camels with deepams on their backs, the `Crafts and Weaves' (11, Ist Main Road, C.I.T. Colony, Mylapore) collection has terracotta horses and camels as the `diyas' themselves!
The Crafts and Weaves' collection has gaily painted diyas, `kolam' agals with serrated covers and diyas shaped like blossoming flowers.
The "Seventh Sense" (15, 4th Main Road, Gandhi Nagar, Adyar) lamp collection has finely crafted designer terracotta ones featuring Ganesha, Lakshmi with 108 mega agals, beautifully crafted traditional uralis, tulasi mandams and some more variety galore for Karthigai.
Craft O'Mania's (Buckingham Towers, Mc Nichols Road, Chetput) deepam range is unique in the use of shaded colours.
The concepts include beautifully crafted and painted roses and leaves doubling us as diyas. Also available are large sized Lakshmi lamps with 21 agals which are painted in entrancingly vivid colours. Gift packets of diyas is also available with Craft O'Mania.
There are exquisite glass lamps too in jewel tones and encrusted with gold and silver dust, available at Ambience (37, Bheemanna Garden Road, Raja Annamalaipuram).
And many more in every craft store and emporium - and at the small street shops in the Mylapore temple area...
Poompuhar's exhibition cum sale of `Festival Lamps' concludes on November 28.
PUSHPA CHARI
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