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Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty (1937–2022)

Srikalahasti Shilp Guru kalam-painter who united freehand bamboo-pen natural dyeing with classical Telugu epic verse calligraphy.

Srikalahasti Kalamkari artisan drawing epic figures with a wool-reservoir bamboo kalam pen

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Srikalahasti Kalamkari artisan drawing epic figures with a wool-reservoir bamboo kalam pen
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Working in the temple town of Srikalahasti in Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty executed seventeen-stage mordant-dyed cotton narrative hangings of the Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Shiva Purana using fermented jaggery-iron kasimi black, alum-madder red, and myrobalan baths. 1

Inscribing fluid Telugu poetic couplets between narrative registers with a wool-wrapped bamboo kalam, he received the National Award (1976), Shilp Guru (2002), and Padma Shri (2008). 1

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Srikalahasti & Machilipatnam Kalamkari Dye-Painted Cloth
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Srikalahasti Kalamkari and Shilp Guru J. Gurappa ChettyCrafts Council of India, Chennai, 2009—
"Jonnalagadda Gurappa Chetty (1937–2022)." Folkroom Archive (Artists), https://folkroom.org/artists/jonnalagadda-gurappa-chetty · CC BY-SA 4.0.