Handicraft History
February 13th, 2008
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.