Our Mysore is not just a city of culture and palace
Mysore is also a city of art
that too a art form with GI tag
that is the Mysore Inlay artwork
to know about this wood inlay work
let us go to Arun Fine Arts
Arun fine Arts their complete contact details is available in the description
come let us go there and familiarize ourselves
Namaskara to all the viewers
my name is Ashok kumar
inlay work artist
inlay work in mysore
has been there since a long time
but my opinion is that not many are aware of it
i feel very proud to call my self as a  wood inlay artist
my fathers name is Srikantaia
His brother, my uncle
is L Nagaraj
in 1992 my uncle
got the national award
my father
received the state award merit in 2002
i am L Srikanta
my Fathers name is Lakshmaia
i started the work in 1952
in 1967 under Mir Shaukat Ali i started working
and learnt the work
thereafter i participated in the Dasara Exhibition
there i received a couple of prizes
thereafter
i started my own work
in our wood inlay work
this is one part
that is cutting
the cutting is done
look at this picture from one side,
you will realise what all has been done here
what all has been used to do this, that i will tell you on the table
this is
natural colour wood
this is Michalea champaca
rubber wood
 
Brimstone
this way around 25 variety of woods are used
this is tamarind  wood
this is slate wood
many trees with this kind of natural colour
are used
for few parts
for commercial purpose
what some customers do is
they request for artificial colour
hence due to that
now a days we use these kind of artificial colours
these all are dyed colours
this is used for cutting
this is called as bow
for this
a small 0.5 mm thickness
it has teeth in it
with this the cutting is done
i am Tanuja Ashok
i am Ashok's wife
taking this design
colours are set
and as per the colour required
that wood is accordingly selected
and then the drawing is stuck to it
on this wood
now we need is rose wood
after pasting it on to it
Cutting is started
His name is Mokthar
he has been working here with us for the last 19 years
before this he was working with my Uncle
now he is 60 yrs old
be it any design
once he cuts it
he does not do any kind of colour setting
he cuts it using his own idea
that is his Speciality
now what you have seen is
desi game
i will keep it here and show it to you
this is how it will be
here are all the olden traditional games
notice lagori
learning cycle
spinning top
chinni kolu
hop scotch
caterpillar
flying kite
swing
cycle man selling balloon
gilli dandu
this is seven stones
here is riding the tyres
all these kind of concepts
have been used to frame a mirror
in between the frame will be the mirror
this is how it will look when it is finished
it will be stuck together and completed such
 
after that
that thickness
is pressed on to a plywood
this is after it has been pressed on to a plywood
it is pressed on the ply
levelling is achieved
finishing is done
once finished is done engraving is done
other type of inlay work
this is the teak wood plank
on the plank
these kind of designs
are kept such
marking is done
followed by etching
wood is etched and then the design is placed in it
My name is Faiz Pasha
i have been doing this work since the last 20 years
i have worked in many factories
i have a lot of years of experience
first is the marking
followed by cutting
then after removing everything
fitting is done
this is known as inlay work
this is a iron stick
this is used for making markings
before markings where done using these
this way marking used to be done
now it has become easy
now i do pen marking
all this is pen marking
after making the markings
Cutting is done such
after the marking is cut
i will use this
i will use these tools
similar way all the tools
are used
this is used if the surface is large
if figure area is large
then using this
this way i remove it
after removing
same thickness has to be removed
i fit the designs inside it
 
this is used such, mark is made
this is the marking stick
it is a straight stick
used for making the markings
after making the grove using this
this is placed inside it
this is the same stick which has been fitted into this
 
only placing of it i am showing
these are the lines
these same lines are fitted into this
Same this stick
using these tools
this is inlay made on rosewood
this is inlay made on teakwood
this rose wood inlay is use for gods room
wall panelling
this is 8 ganapathi
these all are furniture
this wood is known as purple heart
this is Australian wood
on it inlay work is done
this too is a natural colour wood
teakwood, rosewood
this is purple heart
Australian natural colour wood
inlay work can be done on any kind of wood
this is inlay work done on rubber wood
 
this is another design
yes this too is rubber wood
this too
is purple heart
this is a tiger
to cut this
we require 15-20 days
in this we have used
here we have used black
previously they used to use Ebony
instead of this black here
now we use black plastic
this is black plastic,
this is natural pathanga
its known as podat
for the eye little plastic has been used
So to cut this one piece
the cutting work alone for this
takes 15- 20 days
for finishing we require one month
below in the wood cutting area
i had showed you the variety of woods
there i showed only few
in this notice
some wood are kept here twice but
you can see how the shading can vary
i will tell you about the wood
the one you are seeing here
are a lot of variety of wood
there are more they are not placed here
notice this in rose wood
this is light in colour
this is medium in colour
this is black
this is reddish
similarly this is silver wood
matti is in dark shade
this,this and this
all these are dark matti
this is rubber wood
similar is the tamarind tree
this is hala tree
this is kodak
both of these are kodak from the same tree hence no change in shade
this is silk wood
champa wood
this too is silk wood
this is slate matti
this is jackfruit
matti, Indian kino
all these are artificial colours
in these there are five artificial colours
other than these there are
there are 2-3 more artificial colours but we do not use them
other than this we use acrylic
in acrylic we use two colours
one is white
in white there is a cream shade as well
another is black
for some commercial purpose
we use all of these
notice the ones i am holding
all these are rose wood
this is very dark
this is reddish
this is slightly brown
this is slightly yellowish
this is slightly darker than that
this is fully yellowish
this is fully red
there are more darker red shade than this as well
why is there so much of colour difference in rose wood?
we can differentiate it in two ways
one is the place
based on the different mud, its contents
it might have good a different colour
second, in the base the colour may be different
in the trunk the colour may be different
in the tips of the branches the colour may be different
it depends on that too
the way we see shade card in artificial colours
in that there is a limit
in this it is unlimited
each slice will be a different colour
there is no way there can be two with same slices
same grains will not be there,
same colour also will not be there
our inlay work art
those who are interested to learn this work
it is inevitable for us to search for such people
and also important
because
as i mentioned earlier this art
in olden days there were 13 to 16 thousand artists who knew this art
at present the once who are active may be around 400
or 600
now what we are doing
to forward this learning
for people to learn
more new people need to be made aware of the existence of this art
so to achieve this
what i am doing is
if a customer comes to me
or when i meet any friends
or when i meet parents at my children school
i ask them if they are interested
i show them a video
or show them the items that we make
that creates interest in them
so once they show interest
then is how then how this cutting is done
what all is involved in doing this?
how many people work to create this
as per the piece of work atleast 6 people need to work
when i share all this information they feel happy
they ask can i learn too
for that i have set up this place
i have made a facility for 18 people to learn here
in this class, see here now
is a person who searched for me in google
and came to see the items here
He is Mohan
he is a software engineer
when he came to me
i spoke to him for half an hour
after talking he was happy
he came to learn
in his free time he comes and works
about him as to how he found his interest
what all he has created
since how many days he has been doing
let Mohan share his experience
by profession i am a software engineer
i had come here
to purchase products
when i came up and saw
i got to know that they give training here
then i enquired with him
if i too can come and get trained
he welcomed me
he did not restrict me in any way
what ever was required for learning
he help me in all ways to learn
from then on
what ever cutting is there
how to hold the bow
how to set the blade
all things starting from basics
knowledge about grain structure
how the cutting needs to be done
how this should be, paper should not be there
all in detail
he has taught me
this is contemporary design
these all are coffee coasters
this s the first cut one
this is the elephant
all these are coasters
these all are contemporary designs
this is shivaji
reindeer
this is with boarder, with lot of change
this is A4 size
work is so much in it
this is girl with a pearl earring
all these i have done
this is mother and daughter
all these are modern art
this is bhagat singh
all types of single portraits
i have done one of each this way
Charlie Chaplin
this is self portrait
if i do somebody else
they will take it and go
hence if i make my own no one will take it
so i made a portrait of my own
one for myself
this is for Vijay Diwas
i have seen quite a lot of hindu and christian ones
hence i did this for variety
without restricting to India
this is international
bob marley
these kind of drawings i have taken
from these drawings
this is a part of this drawing
only this part
i photo copied it
then did colour setting similar to this using wood
all this is natural wood
none of these are artificial colours
all are natural wood
why did you feel like learning this art?
i had come to purchase this
in this there are a lot of varieties
this same piece
if you make another piece just like this
it will not look the same
because wood grain structure will not be the same
if you go to north India
they do it in brass as well as
in marble and other materials
but in wood this is done i n Mysore alone
our Mysore, we being born in Mysore
grew up in Mysore
we should export this to International places
instead of that
we say this is there and keep it in our own house
no one will get to know about it
hence to do advertising
i started this
but seeing its beauty i felt i should learn it
before we tell others
we should know about it
to know that
i started to learn
she is Sunandaamma
she has been doing this art work here for last 14 years
she generally does the lady theme
work given to her
i do these lady theme
and make frame out of it
a frame which is complete that i will show it to you later
notice the kind of varieties of ladies
that is of various states in various forms
notice this same picture
when finished it will appear such
this is the same picture
there is a variation in size
both these pieces are done by Sunandamma
i now
this our wood inlay
it history, i will tell now
i learnt this job
from my Fathers elder brother
My uncles name is L Nagaraj
He started work
under Chinnaswamy Madyar he learnt the work
for one or two years there after
he learnt work under Mir Shaukat Ali
in 1962 Mir Shaukat Ali
he was the national award winner
to tell about Mir Shaukat Ali
then we will have to write a small history itself
how our art came into being
why
why it remained in mysore
all this i will tell along with the introduction
this art started came to us
from Persia, as per our records
before that it existed in Egypt, Japan, they say
but as per our government
development of Handicrafts records
it is mentioned that this art came from Persia
Persians
came to build the Taj Mahal in Agra
amongst those who came to build Taj Mahal
the artisans
you may have noticed in the Taj Mahal
they have done inlay work in stone
stone is carved and placed inside a stone
they have made designs such
so for that stone inlay
in kannada it is known as Kundana Kale
the stone inlay work artists
the ones who specialised in it were those from Iran
then it was Persia
now we call it as Iran
so after the Persians built the Taj Mahal
in various places
they have migrated
they may have migrated
or there may have been the locals who learnt the work from them and
later Persians may have gone back, this may have happened such
as per our government records
it is there that they migrated
what they have done is
they remained in 4 places
1. Agra
even now you can find the stone inlay work art there
2. Hoshiarpur- that is in Punjab
what they do in Hoshiarpur is
in wood, using elephant tusk
they make design and used to fit it
now they do it using acrylic
since in 1972 elephant tusk was banned
they do inlay in wood
using acrylic do flower designs
and place it there
3. In uttarakhand
it is in Saharanpur
What they do there is
all the work that you see here, that they do it in brass
all these cuts that we do, using acrylic and so on
there they do it in brass
in brass sheet
they cut the designs in it
that is inserted in the wood
that is brass inlay work
so far we have seen three
fourth in those days of Mysore Kings
had a lot of planning with foresight
what they did was
this art work
with an intention of using and retaining this work
they got artists from there
they first got them for decoration, may be
In Mysore Amba vilas palace even now
you can see a number of
inlay work is there using elephant tusk
it is there even now
this art was
generally found only in the house of Kings and diwans
those who visited Mysore Maharaja
and all the British Officers as well
for Hyderabad Nawab
In Kolkota Indian Museum also this can be found
every where it is mentioned as the gifts received from Mysore
Mysore Maharaja
to many people
gave gits to many people, as a representation of Mysore
what used to happen to these gifts are
they came to be known as Mysore Inlay work
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