Lippan kam or mud-mirror work
Lippan (roughly translated-mud washing in Gujarati language and the spelling should be lipan)
kam (is work in Hindi and Gujarati)
Lippan kam is a decorative art done by common people mainly women.
Lippan kam is done inside bhungas/mud huts in villages of Kutch, Gujarat.
Lippan kam is generally done inside the house but sometimes you can find it on outer walls too.
Generally harijan and Rabari women make birds, trees, animals, peacock, human figures etc in lippan kam.
It is done with a mixture of clay and camel dung. Now gum is used to stick mirrors.
Originality of lippan kam lies in adding no colour or only whites.(You may get few pieces of very colourful mud-mirror work in export houses online; exotic pieces but I won’t call it lippan kam!)
Small round, diamond-shaped or tringle mirror pieces are essential to lippan kam. Many a times mirror pieces are a little embroidered.
It is simple technique, anyone can do it.
Can you see slightly raised mud lines-spread with hands.
You just need to use the thumb with two fingers! ?
See the embroidered mirror here ?
I just love-love lippan kam.
All of you who go to Kutch, don’t forget to take photos of lippan kam (and don’t forget to send me all images!!).
(Not all photos are of good quality but I had to put all)
(images courtesy Llnosom on flickr, panjo kutch, hodka villages, travelblog, baps care, indi studio, my cuttings)
Awesome work.Would like to know if anyone did it in Mumbai.
Shaila
This is awesome,had seen this work earlier in Kutch,on the way to Gir forest.
Would love to know if any one does it in Mumbai. Shaila
mast designs
iam a architect. and ia want to build building with differret design so want build a building with mud and so prefrance is the kutch it has a beatiful mud buildings so like kutch very much
nice collection
v impressive, v helpful for upcoming artist like us…
i have tried followed ur guideline and made wonderful piece of mudart
thank u v much.
ilike very much of this type of kachhi lipan work iwanted to know how to make design
siyare sorath bhalo,
unare gujrat,
valkhe me vadad bhalo,
mujo kutchdo bare mash…
munji matrubhumi k naman ay metho asanjo vatan
dear all
i have job in NGO. we are working in kuthc district for in haritage artisan project. we give a trining for mud art, rogan art, block printing and embrodary. if u want to lear a learn in join with us for 3 month trinaing progaram.