Variety of Handicrafts are produced in Orissa
Particulary in Puri area such as Patta Painting, palm leaf paintings,
stone carvings, wood carvings, painted wooden toys, Bell metal, Dhokra,
Brass, Silver Filigree etc. Orissan Handicrafts are known and admired
world over for their primitive quality, dexterity, precision, novelity
in designing and concepts. These are available in the following places.
There is a Craft Development Centre at Batagaon, just on the out skirts
of Puri (3 km from Puri on NH-203).
Patta Painting and Palmleaf Painting
Raghurajpur Village, Craft Development Centre, Batagaon, Puri
Stone Carving
Sudarshan Crafts
Museum, Station Road
Raghurajapur, Chhaitana
Puri Konark Road
Dhokra and Brass Silver
Many shops in the Grand Road, Utkalika
Applique Work
Pipili and shops in the Grand Road and Sea Beach
Solo Works
Sola Pitaha Craft Centre,
Harachandi Street, Puri