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Sri Lanka has many fine traditional handicrafts which are the products of a continuing tradition of Singalese culture and craftsmanship. Descendants of the ancient craftsman can be seen creating crafts of rate elegance of various materials. Products of master craftsmanship are turned out using traditional techniques, tools and indigenous material. Displays of skilled workmanship which is individual in style and original. in its motifs are seen in and around the city in homes of craftmen, at art centres and also in gandicraft shops. materials used for these cottage industries vary widely, from fabric, rush and reed, metal, wood, ect. |
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Kandy is famous for silver, brass ans copper work, wood carving , ceramics, lacquer work, hand-looms, batik, handmade jewellery of gold and silver, rush and reed work, ect. Exhibition hall of Kandyan Arts and Crafts Association beside the lake and the Government owned Arts and Crafts shop, Laksala present a good display of these items. Nattarampotha , a traditional craft village is found 3 kilometres eats of the city where all families are engaged in producing crafts in the traditional way using traditional techniques and materials. Dumbara mats a typical Sri Lanka art
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Kandyan culture is also inseparable from the traditional arts of dancing and music. They are absorbed into the culture in various forms such as rites, rituals, productive activities, religions, monumental, ect. The origin of Sinhala dancing can be traced back to the Pre Buddhist era. The Kandyan dance (the dance of the up country) is one of the most advanced and free-standing form of art, in the evolutionary process of dancing. Associated with the annual rituals (the procession) of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandyan dancing has won international fame. Talking about the music around the Kandyan region for most, means the dominant, vibrant, submerging sounds of the drums. As .an accompaniment for the Kandyan dancing, drumming is a language that no ear can resist.
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