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An empty canvas with as many as 82,975 tiny
holes is transformed into a brilliant piece of art, by half cross-stitch
embroidery, depicting the tallest temple tower in the world, the
Rajagopuram of Srirangam. About 800 metres of embroidery thread
in 10 different colours are sewn through the holes, taking about
3 months for the edifice to arise. As many as 1,150 such art pieces
have been created and will be on display stretching to about 800
metres, by about 750 students in the Sethalakshmi Ramaswamy College,
Trichy on October 6th, 2007.
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FINAL ART PIECE |
The aim is to make the Guinness record of 15,000 square feet
of embroidery of the single theme of Rajagopuram half stitch embroidery.
We invite you from all parts of the world to join hands and achieve
the aim of 5,000 more Rajagopuram art pieces.
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at a simple function held in Trichy the project was launched
by then District Collector of Trichy, Mr. K.Rajaraman I.A.S.,
and his wife, Mrs. Kalayani Rajaram, on 13-04-1998.
The response from the devotees was indeed most encouraging.
From various parts of India, through letters, media, and
house journal of Madura Coats, lovers of art, and pious
people, asked for details of the project. TILUNA send them
details, and also the screen printed Rajagopuram canvas
in courier. After a few months, slowly the wonderful pieces
made by the devotees started coming up in scores, and later
hundreds.
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TILUNA organized an exhibition of handcrafts, sarees, textiles,
etc. and later continued to sell the same to selected customers,
and the proceeds were used for funding the project. About
12 lakhs was raised from friends, and by sales of products,
and of this Rs. 6 lakhs was spent on supply threads, frames,
and for sending the materials by courier to the friends, who
had volunteered to take up the work.
Today TILUNA has as many as 1150 pieces on hand, over 1,000
pieces have been made by devotees from all over India, and
rest by friends from abroad. While most of the artists were
housewives and young ladies, there were quite a few men, and
too. Christians and Muslims too had taken up the magnificent
work Almost all of them had expressed great satisfaction and
mental peace in being a part of the TILUNA Rajagopuram project.
“It brought us mental peace, and a feeling of pride
with humility, that we too could make a small embroidery replica
of the great Rajagopuram tower”.
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