Bangladesh textile industry has fascinated the world since ages by its unparalleled handcrafted clothes and designs. This is an inherited talent we Bangladeshi have brought from our ancestors. Our unmatched fabric work gives a tough competition to rest of the textile industries of the world. As there is no dearth of fabric in Bangladesh, hence our design and patterns are the most fabulous one with lots of varieties and designs. The talented Bangladeshi craftsmen produce the most breathtaking varieties of yarn, fabric, home textiles home furnishing. There are plenty of fabrics all around in Bangladesh which are processed and designed by these craftsmen to produce a range of excellent curtains, rugs, durries, carpets, placemats, cushion covers, table covers, linen and many other products. There are many woven garments fabricated with the royal sheen which make them worth possessing. There are lots of materials which are used by the Bangladeshi craftsmen for weaving like cotton, silk, rayon, polyester, and denim. Various types of garments manufactures by our craftsmen are sari, shirts, skirts, blouses, salwar suits and few more such eye catching costumes. Sari is the most prominent ladies wear in Bangladesh. It is found in thousands of varieties and styles like chikan work, mirror work, phulkari darn work, bead work and jail work. All these beautiful garments prepared by our skilled artisans are the tribute to the ancient Bangladeshi craftsmen who first developed this skill.
Pottery is an art of furnishing the clay in various shapes and size. Potters do posses such skill which enables them to mould the lumps of clay in to an eye catching sculpture or utensils. Since ages Bangladesh has proved herself as one of the most talented nation in pottery products. This is an art which has been followed since the human civilization has developed. Invention of potter’s wheel gave man the way of making beautiful shaped statue and the utensils. The lump of clay used for pottery can’t just be of any type. While choosing the clay for his work, a potter has to be very cautious. Clay must be soft, malleable, free from impurities and not too rigid. There are various kinds of clay available all around, but pottery needs certain special kind of clay like potters clay, ceramic and porcelain. In ancient days pottery was only used to develop few home utensils to cater basic needs. But now days it’s also been used for decoration purpose like under-glaze decoration, in-glaze decoration, on-gaze decoration, enamel and many more. It is believed that glazed pottery was brought in Bangladesh from Arabian countries. Terracotta works is also one of the most fabulous products of pottery. Clay toys and tanjore doll were once the most famous clay products in Bangladesh. Bangladeshi pottery has now implanted its feet even in various parts of the world where these artistic works are worth possessing.
After years of excavation archeologist ultimately explored the secrets of our handicraft history. Since Stone Age, this work of handicraft was so very prominent. The workmanship of that artisan was incomparable. The wood works, tools, and artistic pictures carved on the walls of the caves reflect the aesthetic sense of the people in early age. Sculpture, paintings and terra-cotta proved the artistic talent of those artisans. Initially these artistic sculptures, terra-cotta, wooden appliance were all made to cater the daily need of ancient people but slowly it resulted in the development of designs and motifs. Some of the ancient crafts were mainly designed for the spiritual purposes. The tools which they use for these handicraft works reflects the sign of the tools which are being used today. Though the tools were mainly for survival purpose, but the making of these tools ultimately paved the way for new era of handicraft. Stone age man adopted the method of ‘hammer stone’ to make tools. This method required the striking at an angle of 120 degrees that too on a convex surface of water worn pebble. This method was a perfect one and used for the manufacturing of most of the tools that time. Even now the tools which are used like spanner, rigid pipe wrench, meco megger, decker drill machine, proto socket spanner, stanely screwdriver etc are the outcome of those early age inventions.