Gobardhan Panika
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Gobardhan Panika | |
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| Occupation | Weaver |
| Awards | Padma Shri Presidential Award National Award |
Gobardhan Panika is an Indian master weaver of Kotpad handloom a traditional tribal craft.[1] The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2018, for his contributions to the art of weaving.[2]
Biography
Gobardhan Panika was born in a small village called Kotpad, Koraput district, Odisha, India. He was only 12-year-old when he left school and took up the family business of weaving to help his father and shoulder family responsibilities. [3]
His hand-woven textiles have tribal motifs along with flowers, animals, fish, starts and pyramids. He sets the loom for each piece of handloom making all his textiles turn out to be unique. Panika weaves saree, shawl, towel and other products which are 100% cotton with natural thread fibers.
Kotpad weaving uses hand spun cotton yarn from the Handloom Society which is then treated with a back-breaking month-long dyeing process even before being made a fabric. The dyes are extracts of the Aaljhaad tree barks. Only two primary shades are used - textured red and coffee brown. The process involves soaking the yarn in oil, mixing with cow dung for disinfecting, washing in a running stream, boiling it 40 times for seasoning and roughening for a coarse feel. The barks are separately taken out in flakes for powdering in a refined process that gets mixed and boiled with the yarn. "To weave a chunni (dupatta) it would take a week, and a sari, a month. [4]
The red colour comes from the roots of the aal tree (Indian Madder). Shades of red, maroon and dark brown can be obtained depending on the ageing of the madder and the way the dye is processed (under the sun, in clay pots). Black is developed by adding powdered kumhar-pathar (sulphate of iron; they buy it from blacksmiths).
See also
References
- ^ "Weaving wonders". The Hindu. 8 November 2006.
- ^ "Padma Shri" (PDF). Padma Shri. 2018.
- ^ "Meet Master Weaver And Padma Shri Gobardhan Panika". Odisha TV. 3 Feb 2018.
- ^ Turaga, Janki (6 July 2013). "Border Crossing". The Hindu.
Category:Living people
Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in arts
Category:Indian weavers
Category:Textile arts of India