Tampaksiring The Bali Bone Carving Crafts Palace – Besides wood, notably Bali has a bone carving and clam carving area, which is quite well known, namely Tampaksiring village, Gianyar, Bali. Already more than half a century bone carving craft in Tampaksiring occupied by people from generation to generation, so that the art is developing well. Generally, since small children in this village began learning to carve the bone.
If you walk along Tampaksiring street, you will find many art shops that sell many shells and bone carving crafts. Although every shop sells almost the same items, every craftsman has a different style, both the technique of carving produced and the form of marketing their products. The craftsmen make patterns according to the consumer market by region of origin and by consumer ages.
The bone craft has a very varied size and engraving, starting from large and not too detailed, abundant with very elaborate carvings, small simple, and tiny details. Also, consumers can buy custom bone carving crafts as their desired.
The material used is very diverse, ranging from horns or ox bones, buffalo, fish bones, deer antlers, ivory elephants or mammoths, and shells. The artisans chose the cow and buffalo bones as the main ingredient because it has a large size, while for the fishbone, craftsmen select specific types of fish which has a large scale and healthy bones. Similarly, carved shells, the craftsmen also choose certain types of shellfish that have a large size and durable, so that when to cut not destroyed. These types of shells are the horned helmet, cukli, mother of pearl shell, and others.
In addition to visiting bone carving craftsmen, you can also visit the Presidential Palace in Tampaksiring. The Presidential Palace was deliberately built in Tampaksiring because it was very concerned with aspects of art in Bali. The palace’s location not far from the bone carving area. Amazing, isn’t it! Tampaksiring The Bali Bone Carving Crafts Palace.
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Hello,
My name is Kamiel Proost. I was in Tampaksiring in 2009, and did some work with Astina. Is this his shop.?
Greetings
Kamiel Proost
I am looking for small carved half skull half face pieces made from antler.