Colourful decorations for Christmas

CRAFT BOUTIQUES and shops all over the city are bright with the colour and glitter of handcrafted Christmas decorations, baubles, toys and special gifts. The choice of festive decorations to dress up Christmas trees, fill up stockings and decorate the home is enticing, ranging from Etikopakka lacquerware bells to imaginative Chennapatna toys, colourful stuffed toys, Santas and clowns, beaded flowers and twinkling stars, loveliest of silk roses, animal glove puppets and much more.

Dakshinachitra says it in the traditional colours of Christmas: red, green and black. With an array of prettily painted bells, baubles and candles in Christmas colours and neatly woven red and green palmyra boxes to pack gifts. The festive colour coding echoes in pretty Etikopakka toys, boxes, coasters and bangles, in sets of table napkins, beautifully shaped candles, etc. Other craft gifts on display at the Dakshinachitra Craft Shop are tiny kalchuttie spice boxes, exquisitely crafted silk flowers and Plaster of Paris icons such as Jesus, Mary.

`Crafts and Weaves' celebrates the spirit of Christmas with colourful paper stars and bells, ingeniously shaped candles in bright colours, golden hued `sikki' grass gift boxes and a range of Etikopakka and Chennapatna bells and toys. And `Ambience' reflects the mood of joy and festivity in their collection of handcrafted blown glass bells, wrought iron and glass lamps, candle stands and candles in very contemporary shapes.

`Manasthala's' Christmas tree glitters with Chennapatna Santas and Etikopakka bells, bead ornaments, animals and birds from Gujarat, stuffed coloured and toys and an amazing array of beautiful handcrafted glove puppets of birds and animals! The sale of handcrafted Christmas decorations will be on at Dakshinachitra (East Coast Road, Muttukadu), Ambience (Bheemanna Garden Road, Abhiramapuramm), Crafts and Weaves and Manasthala (6 Cenotaph Road, Alwarpet), till the end of the month.

PUSHPA CHARI

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