When there was no paper, dried Palm-leaves (Talapatra) were used for writing manuscripts. Odia Mahabharata, Ramayana and many other books have been written on Palm-leaves.
Palm-leaf etching is a traditional and popular craft of Odisha that shows the skills of the artisans.
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Apart from figures of Gods, animals and birds are also skillfully etched.
Trees, plants etc. are etched on palm-leaves too.
Life-stories of Lord Krishna, Ganesha, Buddha, Jesus etc are also available.
As Palm-leaves are eco-friendly unlike plastic, our company proposed palm-leaves to be used for making “Delegate tags”. We got such Delegate tags designed and created for Odisha Forum and Wiki Odia.
Conferences need such tags. Sustainable “green-cards” are well-received.
Palm-leaf flip-toys designed like Tiger, Bear, Bat and Joker are available in the market.
For the Asian Athletic Championship (AAC) held in July 2017, we designed a Palm-leaf flip-toy – the Olive Ridley Turtle mascot named Olly. We had great fun with Olly toys at the Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar.
I had got my visiting-cards printed on Palm-leaf too!
Were you aware about such crafts? Do share in the comments below.
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