Sunday, July 12, 2009

Indian Designs

Indian Designs n - moon



Indian Designs m - sun



Indian Designs a - bird with 2 heads



Indian Designs - Peacock



Indian Designs i - stream of water symbolism



Indian Designs b - stylised tiger
{reminds me of something}




Indian Designs j - talisman



Indian Designs k - (symbolic) leaf with a pattern



Indian Designs p - bundle of sweets symbol with pair of rabbits



Indian Designs q - scissors symbolic design with pair of stylised or imaginary animals



Indian Designs l - symbol called Tray with Designs




Indian Designs c - elephant made out of line drawn symbol



Indian Designs d - horse made from line drawing symbol - clipart



Indian Designs g - talisman - clip art



Indian Designs h - Lotus (symbol)



Indian Designs t - knot of a single cobra: line drawing design - clipart symbol


The images above come from small clipart book I've got called 'Native Designs from India' © Maarten Hesselt van Dinter, 2007. [More in the set] It appears to be one of a series of indigenous art symbol books by van Dinter for HvD Publishing.

From the introduction:
"The beautiful designs in this book are mostly geometric depictions of animals, flowers, objects and deities and are embroidered in cloths, painted on walls and ceramics, drawn on floors as talismans and even used as henna and tattoo designs. They reflect the vitality of the Indian people, their culture and their beliefs."

Update: See - Kolam {images}/ Rangoli {images} [sandpainting]
Also: Data is Nature / Flickr: kolam / rangoli.
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