Our Correspondent
Mokokchung, March 15
A ten-day craft gala is currently underway at Imkongmeren Sports Complex in Mokokchung town. The handicrafts event was formally inaugurated by Mokokchung district’s Deputy Commissioner Sushil Kumar Patel on Tuesday.
The event is being organized by the Nagaland Handloom & Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd (NHHDC) and sponsored by the establishment of the Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), of the Ministry of Textiles.
One hundred participants from the north eastern states of Manipur, Nagaland, and Assam are participating in the bazaar. Various indigenous items such as cultural apparel, shawls, necklaces, locally-made pickles, bamboo products and wooden handicrafts are being exhibited and sold at the event.
The program will go on till March 24. The organizers have invited citizens to visit and buy the various indigenous products being sold at reasonable prices.
A handicraft, sometimes more precisely expressed as artisanal handicraft or handmade, is any of a wide variety of types of work where useful and decorative objects are made completely by hand or by using only simple tools. It is a traditional main sector of craft, and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one’s hands and skill, including work with textiles, mouldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibres, etc. Usually the term is applied to traditional techniques of creating items (whether for personal use or as products) that are both practical and aesthetic.
Collective terms for handicrafts include, handcrafting, crafting, and handcraftsmanship. The term arts and crafts is also applied, especially in the United States and mostly to hobbyists’ and children’s output rather than items crafted for daily use, but this distinction is not formal, and the term is easily confused with the Arts and Crafts design movement, which is in fact as practical as it is aesthetic. (Input:Wikipedia)
