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The history
stands as a witness to prove that art and craft was
started since ancient time. It is believed that Thanka
and wall paintings among all arts/crafts was started
in 11th century. In ancient art and crafts, the colors
combination extracted from mine stone, flowers and mud
were massively used to make arts gorgeous. This trend
of color combination was last till the 17th century,
and gradually deteriorated afterwards and almost extinct
in modern era. The reason behind this extinction is
the use of unnatural chemicals which is not only cheaper
but also easily available in the market. Thus, the artists
have focused to use such color instead of ancient mines
stones etc. This has eventually led to deteriorate the
quality of arts. Untimely faiting colors and short lasting
the innovation are the examples of deteriorated quality
of arts as we see in current days. With
the objective to retain and sustain ancient natural
color scheme even in modern deteriorating artistic
era, the Natural Collection Traders has been established.
What is NCT?
The Natural Collection Traders
is an organization which collects different mines
stones from different locations and persons to use
in Thanka and other paintings. The main aim of NCT
is to explore several ancient color schemes and to
make proverbial among the people. The NCT makes orient
them on how and where to use such colors for quality
arts.
Activities
- At the beginning the NCT collects
the stone colors which have been rapidly on extinction.
- Motivate those artists who have
been using chemical color to use mines colors and
teach them the process for using mines colors.
- Manufacture the raw materials of
mines color according to the need of people through
typically use of ancient technology i.e. handmade
and sell them in very reasonable price.
- The Company has been producing
stones colors along with several Thanks using the
same stones colors. On the matter of quality of
color, it can easily be distinguished between Thankas
available in the market and the Thankas produced
by NCT.
- The next aim of the NCT is to orient
the quality Thankas to the needy people so as to
avoid from illicit fraud as well as to familiarize
the importance of ancient color scheme. The Suwal
Art Gallery welcomes all the Art lovers to observe
quality Thankas flourished with stone colors.
Services
The government approved Company (NCT)
has been serving the people since 2 decades in the
field of ancient colors combination with the use of
mines stones in Nepal and assures to continue everlasting
services to its well wisher. |
