Goa produces beautiful, decorative and utility items made out of coconut fiber. Apart from consuming the coconut in the meals it has done wonders to earn livelihood for the local artists. Artists prepare decorative to utility items from the shells and its fiber. Brooms are well prepared and have a good life span and don’t produce any dust out of it. Locals have been using spoons or davlo as locally called and other vessels made out of shells .These are safe to use.
Boats and outriggers are also prepared which involves lot of manual labor and skilled art. Today there is great demand of fashionable coconut jewelry along with decorative items such as masks, bags, candle stands, purses etc.
Crafts By Category
- Bone, Horn, Ivory and Shell
- Cane, Bamboo and Nut
- Clay and Terracotta
- Coconut Shell, Fibre and Stem
- Dolls, Toys & Games
- Embroidery
- Floor Covering
- Glass
- Hand Block Printing
- Jewellery
- Lac
- Languishing crafts
- Leather
- Metal
- Others
- Painting
- Paper and Papier Mache
- Saris
- Shawls, Blankets and Wool
- Stone
- Theatre Crafts
- Weapons
- Wood
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