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-Distinctive
woodcarving is one of the traditional arts, crafts and handicraft of
Myanmar.
The others are
arts and crafts in gold, silver and iron; bronze, brass
and copper casting; relief work in stucco; turnery; drawing and painting;
lacquer ware; sculpting in stone or marble and lapidary work.
Traditional skills are
carefully preserved in families and passed down from generation to
generation to make sure the expertise in handicraft.
Carved wooden figures found in the stupas and shrines of the Bagan period,
1057-1287, suggest Myanmar carvers
raised the standards of the woodcarving
skills introduced from India in the 9th
and 10th Century.
Traditional
designs include the kanoke pan depicting intricate lotus buds, blossoms and
stems; scrollwork with a floral arabesque; chu or stylized figures
resembling lions with flowing manes; keinnaya and keinnayi, mythical male
and female birds with human heads and torso; beloo or ogre; and galon or
garuda, the mythical king of birds.
Myanmar carved wooden figures and bas-relief works are usually found on the covered
stairways or zaungdans of pagodas, in monasteries in highly embellished teak
panels and in many religious buildings and residences. Even household
furniture, fixtures and utensils are decorated with wood carvings.
-Today there is a
tremendous diversity in Myanmar handicraft.
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There are
Myanmar Buddha images, altars
and other religious figures, nats or
spirits; elephant, oxen, buffalo, tiger,
bullock cart and peacocks as souvenirs
for tourists; chinthes and other objects of
Myanmar legends. Orders can be placed also
for
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custom made items.
Handicrafts
in Myanmar are really beautiful made
from marble,
creating woodcarvings,
jewelries with all kind of
local gemstones plus other arts and
crafts, there are many variants. Myanmar
markets and especially the Bogyoke market in
Yangon carry
a wide range of handicrafts including ethnic
and regional crafts with usually excellent
quality.
Cottage industries such as lacquer
workshops at Bagan produce useful
handicrafts, marble and jade
carver at Mandalay and
Yangon create beautiful
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Bogyoke Market |
Jade Carving |
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Handicrafts in general
are very
affordable. There are quite
sophisticated creations and other very
amateurish because not having the money to
invest in good tools. Lots of exotic
handcrafted items are available in
particular jewelry using ruby, jade and
other precious and semi precious stones, be
very vigilant when buying any jewelry or
gemstones, in particular ruby gemstones and
imperial jade because you don't have the
qualification to look through, means hire a
consultant for some hours.
In any case the positive surprise is, very
consumer friendly prices. Aside of the usual
Myanmar ruby gemstones and jade items are
plenty of goods from China with a very low
price tag. There are other shopping items
such as beautiful ceramics, very attractive
is Myanmar silk and lacquer items. |
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One of the
major Myanmar handicraft is creating
different types of designs of teak wood by
hand with basic carving tools, the result is
great craft of wood carving. Carving teak
wood Myanmar handicrafts is a true piece of
art, it wont matter if it is a Buddha
statue, a mirror frame or just a beautiful
wood handicraft depicting a elephant.
Since ages, wood carving Myanmar
handicraft was considered as a
traditional art which is passed on within
the families of handicraft artists. Most of
Myanmar handicrafts by wood carving are made
from teak wood. Even daily use Myanmar
handicrafts such as rolling pins, ladles,
walking sticks and combs are made from teak
wood. Myanmar craftsmen produce also other
handicrafts such as furniture, toys, book
stands, jewel boxes, decorative panels,
wooden screens, window frames, spoons,
bowls, trays, vases, masks, idols, photo
frames, key hangers, beads from teak wood |
Myanmar Wood Carving |
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Myanmar Mirror Frame Carved from
Wood Rectangle
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Myanmar Mirror Frame Carved from
Wood Round
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Myanmar Wood
Figures Buddha images
Wood is cheaper
- in Myanmar- and softer than other
materials but can be difficult to handle. |
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carvers carefully select wood with the
right degree of hardness, grain and hue for
each object. Myanmar carvers
prefer to work with rosewood, ironwood,
teak, tamalan (Dalbergia oliveri), hpaw (Adina
cordifolia) and yamanay (Gmelina arborea).
Myanmar Gems Paintings
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Other
varieties of handicrafts are marionettes, gold,
silver, iron, bronze, brass casting, copper casting, tapestry,
relief,
stucco, turnery, drawing, painting jewelry,
gemstone paintings. |
Gemstone Painting
A
very special Myanmar Art and
handicraft is gemstone painting,
which means all "painting" is done
by a mosaic of different gemstones.
This are usually pieces of jade,
ruby and ruby dust plus other semi
precious stones. As you can see at
the artwork above it looks like a
painting but the elements are as you
see at the left pictures. This is
somehow in the tradition of French
impressionist and expressionist
paintings but in a very traditional
technique. Anyway it shows very good
the creativity of local handicraft
and art creators. |
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Myanmar
Buddhist painting |
Buddhist painting Monks |
Myanmar Brass Sculpture
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Myanmar Jade Bangles |
Myanmar Jade Bracelet |
Myanmar Jade Elephant |
Myanmar lacquer elephant
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Myanmar lacquer ware shop
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Myanmar lacquer plate
Myanmar lacquer table and plate |
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Paintings, jade ware, antiques and reproduction, Ivory, pearls, marble carvings,
gem painting, puppets, other souvenir items, souvenirs
This group of smiling artisans is
located close to the
Shwedagon pagoda.
Traditional handicraft
skills are carefully preserved in
families and passed down from generation
to generation. Most of the artisans are
simultaneously at
home and at work
in their
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