Hundreds of golu dolls stand in neatly-arranged rows inside a godown at Selvapuram. At a corner, three men are busy packing a few in cartons lined with hay and old newspapers. S Saravana Kumar ...

Imported Barbie dolls, cheap plastic replicas of cartoon characters, and PVC figurines are now passé, and for good reason.

clay, paper mash, ivory wood, and lac turned wood at the annual ‘Dasara Doll Festival’ at Studio Tamala. At the fest, the Mysuru Dasara celebration has been recreated in miniature form with an ...

The clay Golu dolls depict episodes from the Ramayana ... She gained valuable insights into repurposing discarded materials ...

"Oh wake me up when September begins" is a mantra I chant all year long until September finally arrives. My longing for the ...

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we present this first-person story about how a retired therapist from Petaluma began the process ...

Walker’s automatons enact stubbornly human rituals that run the gamut from baptisms to the self-soothing of a child holding a doll ... from its mouth a slip of paper with a printed fortune.

On National Indigenous People’s Day, we present this first-person story about how a retired therapist from Petaluma began the ...

Once you decide to treat your plants in fall with a formulated deer and rabbit repellent, timing is everything. Apply to dry ...

The other one had paper tabs, as in a paper-doll mask, and this one apparently has no neck or ... I can draw. I can learn to make a clay pot like the pots that are on the land. But painting—if I ...

One of my earliest memories in Kushtia is of the colourful, locally-made clay dolls from the Rath Yatra fair, the annual Hindu chariot festival held in July. As a child, I was fascinated by these ...