Design Resource
Nettipatam Making - Thrissur, Kerala
Forehead Decorations on the Elephants
by
Prof. Bibhudutta Baral, Divyadarshan C. S. and Sandhya B.
Tools and Raw Materials
Following are the tools and raw materials required for Nettipatam making at Thrissur:
| • Scissors | - It is used to cut the paper, cloth, threads to the required shapes and sizes. |
| • Pliers | - It is used to cut the beads of various sizes. |
| • Woolen coloured threads | - It is used as fringes, kaalangiyam for the nettipatam. |
| • Golden papers | - It is pasted on the canvas to fix the beads as per pattern. |
| • Gum | - It is used to fix the beads on the pattern. |
| • Pen | - It is used in marking the required sizes of the Nettipatam. |
| • Small bead chain | - It is coiled around the big beads of the pattern. |
| • Board to stick the beads | - Stiff and flat surface required for spreading the beads on the pattern. |
| • Fancy Twine thread | - It is used to fix the two ends of the pattern for hanging. |
| • Canvas | - It is used as the base on which the golden papers are pasted. |
