Woodwork and Artistic Tradition

Abstract

This article emphasizes the concern about the endangered trend of rural arts in today's commercialised world. Modern products also face an endangered trend, like some rural crafts. Our comfort is that the international powers have not yet seized the patent for rural products such as soil products. It is conceivable that artifacts are the mirror of culture and how people's feelings, values, ideologies, aesthetics, etc. are expressed in the objects of artisans who have converted through artifacts. The persistence of traditional rural handicrafts and the social identity issues of the artisan castes who make them must be known in conjunction with the context of today's social change. Have Tamils lived with ecological thinking and classification of the materials into the art tradition, the purpose of this article is to examine.