CRAFT AND RELIGION

In India every craft has sprung up with the influence of religious traditions. The finest creations of craftsmen were prepared for rituals and the most skilled of dyers, painters, weavers have congregated around main centres of religious worship. India has always been sensitive to colours, which has formed the basis of poetic inspiration, of music, surcharged with the subtle nuances of mood. Red was the colour of love, and madder being fast it could not be washed away.

Yellow was the colour of spring, filled with blossoms and the cry of mating birds. Nila or indigo was the colour of Krishna who is like a rain filled cloud. Gerwa or saffron, was the colour of the yogi, the seer who renounces the earth.