Top Hyderabad Handicrafts: Hyderabad, popularly known for biryani, pearls, and monuments, is also home to some classical handicrafts that embellish the beautiful fabric of the subcontinent, thus making them ideal gifts for NRIs visiting India. While these handicrafts tend to imbibe tradition and artistic skill, they also have a bit of modern finesse added to them.
It is a stunning blackened metal ware that has that royal edge whose charm is popular among global art lovers. This project relates to a lot of artifacts, including hookahs, vases, jewelry boxes, and so on.
Colorful, mythological-based original Nirmal paintings can be acquired. Paintings on wood, dyed with vegetable dyes, they are fast becoming fine wall décor for modern homes abroad, thus imparting an essence of India to any given room.
If someone gets lucky these days to find Cheriyal scroll paintings, it would almost be a treasure. These narrative paintings, done on long pieces of cloth, depict rural lifestyles in folklore while telling several traditional stories. Now there are smaller versions making it so easy for NRIs to carry back.
The Kalamkari fabric from Hyderabad, either hand-painted or block-printed using natural dyes, is for someone who follows ethnic fashion. Sarees, dupattas, and even modern outfits made out of Kalamkari textiles find immense favor with NRIs for having an interface of style with culture.
Any Delhi-style trip to Hyderabad should never be complete without lacquer bangles in colorful stones and mirrors that were bought at Laad Bazaar near Charminar. Very light in weight, cheap, and adored by women for many generations.
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Hyderabad handicrafts, not just gifts but memories encased in traditions. For NRIs, carrying Bidriware, Nirmal Art, or Laad Bazaar bangles home is less shopping and more a way of preserving the heritage while adorning the world with India’s culture.