Exhibition ‘Raag-Bhopali’ being organized to promote Zari-Zardozi crafts of Bhopal

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Daily Current Affairs Article 31th December 2020: Madhya Pradesh Government is introducing Campaign regarding promotion of “Ek Zila - Ek Shilp". The State Government is focussing on local traditional art of each district in the state and making efforts to promote it.

The first of such kind of exhibition called Raag-Bhopali is being organized to promote Zari-Zardozi crafts of Bhopal.

Embroidery done with metallic threads is called kalabattu and forms the zari. The main zari production centres are Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

Here the metal ingots are melted into metal bars called pasa from which lengths are got by beating it after treatment.

This is then pulled through perforated steel plates to make it into wires, followed by the tarkashi process to make it thin with rubber and diamond dies.

The last stage is called badla where the wire is flattened and twisted with silk or cotton thread to become kasab or kalabattu.