Craft Clusters
Some of the crafts are practiced in clusters. During the survey, 109 important craft clusters have been identified. District-wise and craft-wise clusters are given in Table-1.2 and Table-1.3 respectively.
District
: Balasore Bhadrak
Bolangir Sonepur Cuttack
Jagatsinghpur Jajpur
Kendrapara Dhenkanal
Angul Ganjam
Gajapati Kalahandi Keonjhar
Koraput Nabarangpur
Malkangiri Rayagada Mayurbhanj
Kandhamal Boudh
Puri Khurda Nayagarh
Sambalpur Bargarh Sundergarh
Crafts
:Applique Stone
Carving Brass & Bell Metal
Pattachitra & Palm leaf
Etching Dhokra Casting Golden
Grass
Silver Filigree Wood
Carving Terracotta Sea
Shell Art Textile Cane
& Bamboo Artistic Mat
Horn Work
Lacquer Work Papier
mache Sabaigrass
Woollen Carpet Coir Craft Jute
Craft Tribal Jewellery
Wooden painted Toy Solapith
TABLE-1.2
Sl.No. |
Name of the District |
Name of the Cluster |
Name of the Craft |
No. of craft persons (approx.) |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
1. |
Boulagadia |
Stone Carving |
120 |
|
|
|
Nilagiri |
Terracotta & Stone Carving |
70 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Remuna |
Brass & Bellmetal |
30 |
|
|
Simulia |
Brass & Bellmetal |
50 |
|
|
Barunsingh |
Golden Grass |
30 |
|
|
Panpana |
Golden Grass |
30 |
|
|
Baliapal |
Artistic Mat & |
25 |
|
|
|
Sabai Grass |
30 |
2. |
Tihidi |
Wood carving |
60 |
|
3. |
Tarava |
Brass & Bellmetal |
70 |
|
|
|
Binika |
Brass & Bellmetal |
60 |
|
|
Jampali |
Dhokra casting |
40 |
|
|
Lathor |
Wood Carving |
40 |
|
|
Patanagarh |
Art Textile |
110 |
|
|
Betrapada |
Cane & Bamboo |
90 |
4. |
Sonepur |
Art Textile |
500 |
|
|
|
|
Terracotta |
35 |
5. |
Lalitgiri |
Stone Carving |
120 |
|
|
|
Bhatimunda |
Brass & Bellmetal |
400 |
|
|
Badbarsingh (Narsinghpur) |
Dhokra Casting |
40 |
|
|
Tarat |
Golden Grass |
40 |
|
|
Cuttack Town |
Silver Filigree |
800 |
|
|
|
Wood Carving |
80 |
|
|
|
Horn Work |
40 |
|
|
Nuapatna |
Art Textile |
800 |
|
|
Talabasta (Banki) |
Cane & Bamboo |
75 |
|
|
Panimal |
Woollen Carpet |
70 |
6. |
Manitri (Biridi) |
Wood Carving |
40 |
|
|
|
Badbag |
Art Textile |
150 |
|
|
Raghunathpur |
Woollen Carpet |
120 |
|
|
Ramchandrapur |
Woollen Carpet |
40 |
|
|
Tirtol |
Woollen Carpet |
65 |
7. |
Laxminagar |
Brass & Bellmetal |
110 |
|
|
|
Baidyarajpur |
Brass & Bellmetal |
500 |
|
|
Gadamadhapur |
Golden Grass |
500 |
|
|
Jarka |
Cane & Bamboo |
40 |
8. |
Jajanga |
Golden Grass |
450 |
|
|
|
Marsaghai |
Terracotta |
60 |
|
|
Dangamala (Vitara Kanika) |
Artistic Mat |
30 |
9. |
Bhuban |
Brass & Bellmetal |
300 |
|
|
|
Indipur |
Brass & Bellmetal |
80 |
|
|
Sadeibareni |
Dhokra Casting |
80 |
|
|
Gandia (Karamula) |
Wood Carving |
40 |
|
|
|
Tribal Jewellery |
40 |
|
|
Deogaon |
Cane & Bamboo |
50 |
|
|
Rasol |
Woollen Carpet |
50 |
10. |
Tangiri |
Dhokra Casting |
40 |
|
11. |
Belguntha |
Brass & Bellmetal |
60 |
|
|
|
Patrapur |
Brass & Bellmetal |
70 |
|
|
Jagamohan |
Brass & Bellmetal |
60 |
|
|
Pitala |
Art Textile |
120 |
12. |
Paralakhemundi |
Horn Works |
45 |
|
13. |
Kandhagarh |
Stone Carving |
55 |
|
|
|
Khairpadar |
Wood Carving |
100 |
|
|
Narla |
Cane & Bamboo |
56 |
14. |
Dhakota |
Stone Carving |
60 |
|
|
|
Haldharpur (Ghatagaon) |
Terracotta |
96 |
|
|
Moreigaon |
Jute Craft |
60 |
15. |
Kotapad |
Art Textile |
200 |
|
16. |
Nabarangapur |
Lac Work |
50 |
|
|
|
Dabugaon |
Wood Carving |
40 |
17. |
Mathili |
Cane & Bamboo |
100 |
|
18. |
Bisamakatak |
Dhokra Casting |
40 |
|
|
|
|
Cane & Bamboo |
50 |
|
|
Jhigidi |
Tribal Jewellery |
30 |
19. |
Khiching |
Stone Carving |
300 |
|
|
|
Kuliana |
Dhokra Casting |
155 |
|
|
Gapabandhu Nagar (Khunta) |
Dhokra Casting |
110 |
|
|
Udala |
Cane & Bamboo |
200 |
|
|
Betanati |
Sabai Grass |
40 |
20. |
Tumudibandha |
Cane & Bamboo |
80 |
|
|
|
Sudurkumpa |
Cane & Bamboo |
70 |
|
|
Barkhama (Baliguda) |
Tribal Jewellery |
30 |
21. |
Butupalli |
Applique |
40 |
|
|
|
Boudh |
Art Textile |
200 |
22. |
Pipili |
Applique |
250 |
|
|
|
|
Woollen Carpet |
90 |
|
|
Kanasa |
Appilique |
80 |
|
|
|
Golden Grass |
50 |
|
|
Kadua |
Applique |
200 |
|
|
Puri |
Applique |
280 |
|
|
|
Stone Carving |
170 |
|
|
|
Sea Shell |
45 |
|
|
|
Wooden Painted Toy |
40 |
|
|
|
Solapith |
40 |
|
|
Satasankha |
Coir Craft |
35 |
|
|
Konark |
Stone Carving |
200 |
|
|
|
Sea Shell |
35 |
|
|
Raghurajpur |
Palmleaf etching |
110 |
|
|
|
Papier mache |
30 |
|
|
Salajanga |
Woollen Carpet |
60 |
23. |
Bhakar sahi |
Applique |
160 |
|
|
|
Mundahan patna |
Applique |
150 |
|
|
Rajas |
Applique |
300 |
|
|
Narangarh |
Stone carving |
90 |
|
|
Rathijema |
Brass & Bellmetal |
300 |
|
|
Bainchua |
Brass & Bellmetal |
400 |
|
|
Muktapur |
Brass & Bellmetal |
140 |
|
|
Bhubaneswar |
Stone Carving |
225 |
|
|
|
Pattachitra & Palmleaf eatching |
100 |
|
|
|
Wooden Painted toy |
40 |
|
|
Kakrudra pur |
Pattachitra & Palm leaf Etching |
40 |
|
|
Sodhua |
Golden grass & Applique |
40 |
|
|
Nuagaon |
Terracotta |
130 |
|
|
Banapur |
Cane & Bamboo |
250 |
|
|
Karadagadia |
Papier mache |
25 |
|
|
Begunia |
Woollen Carpet |
90 |
|
|
Bolagarh |
Woollen Carpet |
110 |
|
|
Bhimpara |
Woole Carpet |
80 |
|
|
Kusumati |
Woollen Carpet |
74 |
|
|
Gopinathpur |
Woollen Carpet |
60 |
|
|
Mendhasal |
Woollen Carpet |
90 |
24 |
Kantilo |
Brass & Bellmetal |
500 |
|
|
|
Khalisahi |
Brass & Bellmetal |
100 |
|
|
Adakata |
Dhokra Casting |
40 |
|
|
Khandapada |
Wood Carving |
30 |
|
|
Ranpur |
Cane & Bamboo |
50 |
|
|
Bhapur |
Woollen carpet |
105 |
|
|
Daspalla |
Cane & Bamboo |
150 |
|
|
|
Woollen Carpet |
55 |
25. |
Rengali |
Brass & Bellmetal |
300 |
|
|
|
Madhupalli |
Dhokra Casting |
35 |
26. |
Barpalli |
Art Textile |
300 |
|
|
|
|
Terracotta |
40 |
|
|
Bargarh |
Art Textile |
200 |
27. |
Tangarapalli |
Cane & Bamboo |
70 |
|
|
|
Hemgiri |
Cane & Bamboo |
150 |
TABLE -1.3
Sl.No. |
Name of the Craft |
Name of the District |
Location of the Cluster |
No. of craft persons (approx.) |
1. |
Puri |
Pipili |
250 |
|
|
|
|
Kanasa |
80 |
|
|
|
Kadua |
200 |
|
|
|
Puri |
280 |
|
|
Khurda |
Bhakarsahi |
160 |
|
|
|
Mundahanapatna |
150 |
|
|
|
Rajas |
300 |
|
|
Boudh |
Butupali |
40 |
2. |
Puri |
Konark |
200 |
|
|
|
|
Puri |
170 |
|
|
Khurda |
Bhubaneswar |
225 |
|
|
|
Naranagarh |
90 |
|
|
Cuttack |
Lalitagiri |
120 |
|
|
Mayurbhanj |
Khiching |
300 |
|
|
Balasore |
Nilagiri & Baulagadia |
120 |
|
|
Keonjhar |
Dhakota |
60 |
|
|
Kalahandi |
Kandhagarh |
55 |
3. |
Khurda |
Muktapur |
140 |
|
|
|
|
Rathijema |
300 |
|
|
|
Baichua |
400 |
|
|
Nayagarh |
Kantilo |
500 |
|
|
|
Khalisahi |
100 |
|
|
Cuttack |
Bhatimunda |
400 |
|
|
Dhenkanal |
Bhuban |
300 |
|
|
|
Indipur |
80 |
|
|
Jajpur |
Laxminagar |
110 |
|
|
|
Baidyarajpur |
500 |
|
|
Sambalpur |
Rengali |
300 |
|
|
Balasore |
Remuna |
30 |
|
|
|
Simulia |
50 |
|
|
Bolangir |
Tarava |
70 |
|
|
|
Binika |
60 |
|
|
Ganjam |
Belaguntha |
60 |
|
|
|
Patrapur |
70 |
|
|
|
Jagamohan |
60 |
4. |
Puri |
Raghurajpur |
110 |
|
|
|
Khurda |
Bhubaneswar |
100 |
|
|
|
Kakrudrapur |
40 |
5. |
Nayagarh |
Adakata |
40 |
|
|
|
Dhenkanal |
Sadeibareni |
80 |
|
|
Angul |
Tangiri |
40 |
|
|
Mayurbhanj |
Kuliana |
155 |
|
|
|
Gopabandhu |
110 |
|
|
|
Nagar (Khunta) |
|
|
|
Cuttack |
Badabarsing |
40 |
|
|
|
(Narsinghpur) |
|
|
|
Rayagada |
Bisamakatak |
40 |
|
|
Bolangir |
Jampalli |
40 |
|
|
Sambalpur |
Madhupalli |
35 |
6. |
Jajpur |
Gadamadhupur |
500 |
|
|
|
Kendrapara |
Jajang |
450 |
|
|
Puri |
Kanas |
50 |
|
|
Khurda |
Sadhua |
40 |
|
|
Cuttack |
Tarat |
40 |
|
|
Balasore |
Barunsingh |
30 |
|
|
|
Panpana |
30 |
7. |
Cuttack |
Cuttack Town |
800 |
|
8. |
Cuttack |
Cuttack Town |
80 |
|
|
|
Jagatsinghpur |
Manitri (Biridi) |
40 |
|
|
Bhadrak |
Tihidi |
60 |
|
|
Kalahandi |
Khairpadar |
100 |
|
|
Nawarangpur |
Dabugaon |
40 |
|
|
Bolangir |
Lathore |
40 |
|
|
Dhenkanal |
Gandia |
40 |
|
|
Nayagarh |
Khandapara |
30 |
9. |
Khurda |
Nuagaon |
130 |
|
|
|
Keonjhar |
Haladharpur (Ghatagaon) |
96 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Bargarh |
Barpalli |
40 |
|
|
Sonepur |
Sonepur |
35 |
|
|
Kendrapara |
Marsaghai |
60 |
|
|
Balasore |
Nilagiri |
70 |
10. |
Puri |
Puri |
45 |
|
|
|
|
Konark |
35 |
11. |
Cuttack |
Nuapatna |
800 |
|
|
|
Sonepur |
Sonepur |
500 |
|
|
Bargarh |
Barpalli |
300 |
|
|
|
Bargarh |
200 |
|
|
Boudh |
Boudh |
200 |
|
|
Bolangir |
Patnagarh |
110 |
|
|
Ganjgm |
Pitala |
120 |
|
|
Koraput |
Kotapad |
200 |
|
|
Jagatsinghpur |
Badabag |
150 |
12. |
Khurda |
Banpur |
250 |
|
|
|
Rayagada |
Bisamakatak |
50 |
|
|
Nayagarh |
Ranpur |
50 |
|
|
|
Daspalla |
150 |
|
|
Kandhamal |
Tumudibandh |
80 |
|
|
|
Sudurkumpa |
70 |
|
|
Malkangiri |
Mathili |
100 |
|
|
Sundargarh |
Tangarpalli |
70 |
|
|
|
Hemgiri |
150 |
|
|
Dhenkanal |
Deogaon |
50 |
|
|
Jajpur |
Jarka |
40 |
|
|
Kalahandi |
Narla |
56 |
|
|
Bolangir |
Betrapada |
90 |
|
|
Cuttack |
Talabasta (Banki) |
75 |
|
|
Mayurbhanj |
Udala |
200 |
13. |
Balasore |
Baliapal |
25 |
|
|
|
Kendrapara |
Dangmal (Bhittarkanika) |
30 |
14. |
Cuttack |
Cuttack Town |
40 |
|
|
|
Gajapati |
Paralakhemundi |
45 |
15. |
Nawarangpur |
Nawarangpur |
50 |
|
16. |
Puri |
Raghurajpur |
30 |
|
|
|
Khurda |
Karadagadia |
25 |
17. |
Mayurbhanj |
Batanati |
40 |
|
|
|
Balasore |
Baliapal |
30 |
18. |
Nayagarh |
Bhapur |
105 |
|
|
|
|
Daspalla |
55 |
|
|
Khurda |
Begunia |
90 |
|
|
|
Bolgarh |
110 |
|
|
|
Bhimpada |
80 |
|
|
|
Kusumati |
74 |
|
|
|
Gopinathpur |
60 |
|
|
|
Mendhasala |
90 |
|
|
Puri |
Pipili |
90 |
|
|
|
Saljang |
60 |
|
|
Jagatsinghpur |
Raghunathpur |
120 |
|
|
|
Ramchandrapur |
40 |
|
|
|
Tirtol |
65 |
|
|
Dhenkanal |
Rasol |
50 |
|
|
Cuttack |
Panimal |
70 |
19. |
Puri |
Satasankha |
35 |
|
20. |
Keonjhar |
Moreigaon |
60 |
|
21. |
Rayagada |
Jhigidi |
30 |
|
|
|
Dhenkanal |
Karmul (Gandia) |
40 |
|
|
Kandhamal |
Barkhama (Baliguda) |
30 |
22. |
Puri |
Puri |
40 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Khurda |
Bhubaneswar |
40 |
23. |
Puri |
Puri |
40 |