Arts and Crafts:
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.
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