Kalamkari painting refers to
(A) A hand-painted cotton textile in SouthIndia
(B) A handmade drawing on bamboo handicrafts in North East India
(C) A block painted woollen cloth in the Western Himalayan region of India
(D) A hand-painted decorative silk cloth in North-Western India
Answer: (A) Kalamkari is a type of hand-painted or block-printed cotton textile, produced in parts of South India and Iran. It is an ancient style of hand painting done on cotton or silk fabric with a tamarind pen, using natural vegetable dyes. This style of painting originated at Kalahasti near Chennai and at Masulipatnam near Hyderabad.
