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Bavasab (1880s–1960s)

Early twentieth-century Channapatna industrial-school reformer who wedded Japanese lathe mechanics to Mysore ivory-wood lac-turnery.

Historical Mysore wood-turner pressing vegetable-dyed lac sticks onto spinning ivory-wood

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Historical Mysore wood-turner pressing vegetable-dyed lac sticks onto spinning ivory-wood
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Serving as founding superintendent of the Government Industrial School at Channapatna under the progressive Diwans of Mysore, Bavasab studied mechanised wood-turning methods from Japan and adapted belt- and treadle-driven precision lathes to local Wrightia tinctoria (aale mara) softwood. 1

By pairing uniform high-speed turning with friction-melted stick-lac tinted using turmeric, indigo, and kumkum, he transformed a cottage craft into Karnataka's enduring geographical-indication toy and lacquerware cluster. 1

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Channapatna Turned Ivory-Wood Lacquerware
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SourcePublisherLicence
Channapatna Toys & Dolls — Geographical Indications Registry DossierKarnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation, 2005—
"Bavasab (1880s–1960s)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/bavasab-miya · CC BY-SA 4.0.