Kavad is a portable wooden shrine with visual narratives of Gods, Goddesses, local heroes, saints, and patrons on its panels hinged together.
The ‘Kumawats,’ an artisan caste started the age-old tradition of the Kavad Art in Bassi, a small village located in the Bhilwara district near Udaipur, Rajasthan.
The sutar community makes the wooden boxes from the mango and Selam trees with the help of simple carpenter tools.
An artisan caste started the age-old tradition of the Kavad Art in Bassi, a small village located in the Bhilwara district near Udaipur, Rajasthan.
Artists have now started selling the Kavad boxes as decorative pieces as an alternative to generating income. People might not listen to the kavadiya bhatts now, but keeping these masterpieces as décor items in their houses is a way.