Pink (from Hibiscus)

Subject

Colours

Description

Freshly plucked hibiscus flowers are torn by hand and ground to a paste on the shil nora (traditional grinding stones). The paste is then mixed with natural glue made from wood-apples (bel-er atha), and strained through a cotton cloth. The colour thus produced is placed on hollowed out coconut shells.

Creator

Chitrakar, Khaleda
Chitrakar, Lutfa
Chitrakar, Rehana

Publisher

University of Exeter

Date

2019-11-10

Contributor

Dutta, Shrutakirti
Halder, Bhagirath
Mondal, Sujit
Mukherjee, Ayesha

Rights

CC-BY-NC

Format

Video

Type

Colour making

Duration

20 min

Event Type

Colour making