Marble is the precious metamorphic stone. Brilliance lies in its texture, its color and above all, if I may say so, its rarity. We might see various stones, red, black etc but finding marble is as rare as finding diamond or say, opium. For folks like us, seeing marble is a beautiful experience as we have never been in the company of this stone. Now think of the place wheremarble is Everywhere, literally!! The mountains made up of the marble, the field of the marble, sitting slabs made of the marbles and what more, even the speed breaker is made of the marble!!...Looks like some fairy tale, no?
Even better, to highlight the glory of such beautiful place is the holy
river Narmada. The pious river Narmada is the only river flowing from East to
west, covering 750kms, to meet Arabian Sea in the state of Gujrat.
Bhedaghat,
in Jabalpur is one such place.
The splashing water of river Narmada seems to
transfer all its beauty in its bank here. Like the rift valley the Narmada
flows between the slabs of the mountain. The water so clear that the river bed
is easily visible if one tries to see it closely or dive in. It’s a hub spot
for thousands of tourist who are mesmerized by the serene marvel of Bhedaghat.
The team of Folksmarket was simply awestruck as soon as we reach in the company
of the marble and of those folks who play with these stones and creates marble
decorative and useful items again and again.
Yes we are coming to these artisans, these folks who still
celebrate their skills, their creations and often instead of idol worshipping
(which they are deft enough to create as and when they feel like!!!) they
worship the nature. This is the tradition.
We were amazed when we saw hundreds of the beautiful items sculpted by these artisans.
Marble glasses, marble lamps, marble chess, marble bangles,
marble swans, etc. Above all the most amazing was the marble telephone!!.
Marble working telephone!! Just imagine how beautiful a glittering marble
telephone will look in the drawing room irrespective of the theme of the
drawing rooms.
List is endless and every item that we have collected is tempting. Even something as monotonous as small glass for drinks is alluring without bounds. Just check more in our website www.folksmarket.com
List is endless and every item that we have collected is tempting. Even something as monotonous as small glass for drinks is alluring without bounds. Just check more in our website www.folksmarket.com
Visiting those sites where these artisans and folks work looks like someone is working with lime stone. The marbles are so whitey!! These folks are working since ages and the same skill is passing on from generation to generation. We must preserve this. After all this is the motto of the company. The sculptors with chisel and hammer break all the stone into its desired length after measuring its softness. Most of the time its their age old wisdom and experience of creations that measures the softness and hardness of the stone. Covering their head and nose these artisans often laments about the termination of the marble mining because of which procuring the stones is getting difficult day by day. Innocently these folks have asked us to highlight this point.
One may ponder over whether to support mining that is
creating havoc on the environment or not. Not supporting the mining is taking a
toll over these poor folks. We may logic it out for the mass benefit. But what
about the preservation of the age old tradition? Unfortunately these folks have
to pay the price of that mistakes which they have never committed.
These
artisans never pollute the water and never mine the mountains, rather than just
take some pieces from here and there which never affects the balance of nature.
Anyway, there are still some eye opening and breathtaking moments for us that has given our folks the joy. Time to relish our beautiful experience and enjoying the wonderful creations of these folks.
See ya
