About Dohkra Art

This vintage art form is approximately 4,000 years old. Local communities, such as the Ghadwas and Jharas from Bastar and Raigarh, practice Dhokra art’s lost-wax technique of hollow casting using conventional tools. One of the earliest known lost-wax artifacts is the Dancing Girl of the Mohenjo-Daro civilization.

As the genesis of the brassware industry in the Indian subcontinent, Dhokra art is famous worldwide for its primitive simplicity and enchanting folk motifs. Buyers try incorporating modern functional concepts and apply the local traditional motifs as decorations to promote these arts across the globe.