Showing posts with label ecologically friendly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ecologically friendly. Show all posts

10 September 2013

Nice Clay Ganesha Idols



Below are a series of photographs of more eco-friendly mud Ganeshas, which are safer and more environmentally friendly. However these type of mud statues should be purchased without the gold paint, glitter or piercing eyes! Craftspeople creating ecofriendly mud Ganeshas are all around Tiruvannamalai, the below photographs were taken off the Chengham Road, opposite both Seshadri and Ramana Ashrams. 

Householders brought their own small kolam adorned benches with them in order to welcome their completed Ganesha idols.


Right click on all below photographs to view enlargements. 




Beginning the day with a vast mountain of mud


Pressing the mud into Ganesha Moulds


The group co-operating in their street assembly line

Ganesha coming out of Mould


Getting ready for a final tidy-up

Adding to some statues piercing red eyes

Putting the Ganesha onto Househoulder's kolam-board


A very handsome Ganesha on his way home


Golden Ganeshas radiating throughout Tiruvannamalai