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...

Carved stone figures of gods and goddesses are found at Durgi, Allagadda, and Tirupati. Locally available soft stone is used to carve stone...