Art of the Dumbara Weaver

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Some call them stereotyped, to others they have a rustic appeal. Critics notwithstanding, Dumbara mats have of late rustled their ...

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Swarnamali Seneviratne A happy blend of antiquity and richly textured artistic splendour cloaks the entire vicinity where the historic Dambulla ...

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Renuka Jeya Raj Of all the many mediums through which the versatile craftsmen of yore sought to express themselves, sculpture ...

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Photographs: Gamini Jayasinghe Embekke is the name of a village in Sri Lanka that is virtually synonymous with wood carving. ...

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Lasanda Kurukulasooriya Has it ever struck you that there may be places of interest to the traveller that many a ...

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Theja Weeratne From the svelte mannequin on the catwalk, to the buxom country wench in the village, Batiks are very ...

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Jeya Ratnam "Six months labour of the potter is one stroke to the man-with the cudgel"(Old Sinhalese proverb) Practiced hands ...

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