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Know About Designer Indie Wall Hangings
Posted: Aug 10, 2016
If you wish to shop for designer wall decorative products online then look out for indie wall hangings from handicraft shops online. These beautiful tapestries made of 100% cotton can deck-up your walls and give them a grand look.
Indian wall hanging tapestries are loved by people all over the world for the beautiful colours they features. Also the nature paintings, ethnic murals, floral designs, photos of famous Indian Gods and more make them look unique when compared to the artistic wall hangings from other parts of the world. Online traders of indie wall hangings claim that people love these handicraft marvels from India next to the world famous tapestries from Turkey. The speciality about a tapestry is that it made out of one single piece of thread that runs all over image. Just in case if the thread is cut somewhere in the middle or in the corner, then the entire tapestry will start deforming with all other strings and knots getting loose.
Different Types of Indian Tapestries
There are countless designs and styles in which wall hangings are created by the craftsmen from India. Each region in India specialise in a particular form of embroidery, painting or embellishment work thus the cotton tapestry wall hangings from India are available in different styles. Here is a list of beautiful designer indie wall hangings available online from Indian handicraft shops:
Kalamkari Tapestries– The kalamkari tapestries contain flower, leaves and stem designs in different colours of shades that will appear like a garden or a long creeper running across.
Ikkath Tapestries– This beautiful material is 100% cotton and is a famous weaving technique from India with triangle borders known as temple borders.
Chiken Work Tapestries– This beautiful embroidery is done from the Lucknow region of India in which thick and long embroidery patters are created using bright colours of threads in a solid fabric shade.
Beaded Tapestries– Beads, embellishments, fake pearls, original ruby, precious stones and mirrors are used in the beaded tapestries. This looks really grand and gives a rich appeal.
Vegetable dye Bohemian/Hippy Tapestry– The laughing Bohemian man and beautiful patterns are used in this tapestry created using fresh vegetable colours.
Psychedelic tapestry– Creative geometrical patterns are present in this style to give a rich, traditional and a grand look like the carvings done on the roof of famous temples, forts etc. in India.
The other specialisations of indie wall hangings are that they are made of 100% pure cotton hence they last longer than other synthetic materials. The colours used for these wall hanging are extracted from natural sources and vegetables hence they are organic and the chances of the colours fading are too less. One needs to maintain these tapestries with utmost care by not exposing them to direct sunlight or rain so that the embellishments and the colours fade quickly. Dry cleaning of these beautiful interior decoration materials is suggested so that they remain new for a longer period of time.
Zeny D'souza has been writing the article for the Indian Masterpiece which is the leading manufactures, suppliers and exporter of Indian products all over the world.