Soap Stone/Green Stone Carving of Tamil Nadu & Pondicherry

The rough stone is cut to suitable sizes and outlines of the preferred designs are marked with the help of red oxide mixed with water. Somnath and...

Soapstone is used mainly for shaping and carving idols";" there are many villages in Bastar which have shrines with stone idols. The villages of...

The fine stone-carving or fragile jali work in stone is very typical of this area. Jaipur, Thanagazi, Kishori Makrana, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, and...