Design Resource
Orissa Stone Carving
Stone Carved Sculptures
by
Romancing The Stone
Unlike sculptors of other places, the artisans of Orissa are at home with a variety of materials. They handle the ultra soft white soapstone with equal facility as the slightly harder greenish chlorite or ‘Kochilapathara’ and the still harder pinkish Khandolite and the hardest of all the black granite ‘Mugunipathara’ by just using tools like hammer and chisel. Whether the stone is hard or soft the outline is first drawn on the stone and then is accordingly cut. The motifs used are not uncommon and the carvings on the temples also provide models.
