Rajasthani puppets

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Rajasthani Puppet in Indian art style

Besides magnificent havelis, palaces, color, miniature art and delicious food, Rajasthan also worldly famous for its string puppet theatre aka Kathputli. It is the most popular form of Indian puppetry. Being a string marionette, it is controlled by a single string that passes from the top of the puppet over the puppeteers. Kathputli is a join of two rajasthani language words Kath meaning wood and Putli meaning a doll which has no life . Kathputli means a puppet which is made entirely from…

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Give a touch of traditionality to your living room, restaurant, hotel or any party venue by adding these beautiful handcrafted Rajasthani dancing puppets. These can be used to theme decorations as well at your office, restaurant, hotel or any party place. You can decorate the venues with different colours of puppet sets. Also these can be used as #returngifts in one of your celebrations.

Jaipur, India: I had the pleasure of watching a puppet show at my hotel, the Raj Palace, during my evening there. l loved their costumes - try looking at it large. These puppets are string marionettes and were controlled by the head puppeteer. He used a device made of bamboo reed in order to make the shrill voices of the puppets. Another man played a form of bongo drum to go along with the story being told.