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| Shola pith is a milky-white sponge-wood which is carved into delicate and beautiful objects of art of India. Shola is a wild plant found in marshy waterlogged areas of Bengal and Assam. The shola pith is the cortex or core of the plant and is an inch and a half in diameter. The outer harder brown skin is removed by expert hands to reveal the inner soft milky-white and spongy material. Artists from Bengal, Assam, Orissa and Tamilnadu use it for making artefacts used for decoration and ornate head-wears of bridal couples. The finest examples of craftsmanship are however seen on images of gods and goddesses on festivals, especially the massive decorative backdrops made for "Durga- Puja" celebrations. |
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Shola Pith sculpture from India : Shola pith is a milky-white sponge-wood which is carved into delicate and beautiful object of art of India. Sola is a plant, growing wild in marshy waterlogged areas of Bengal, Assam and mainly in the eastern marshy Gangetic plains. Beautiful handmade Indian craft made of shola pith, looking like paper dolls or thermocol dolls or ivory sculpture, depicting international artefact as well as Indian artefacts, Hindu God and Goddesses and others.
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