{"id":7711,"date":"2013-02-09T16:05:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T08:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/?p=7711"},"modified":"2026-09-29T21:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T13:13:46","slug":"craftshops-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/2013\/02\/09\/craftshops-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Craftshops of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did a bit of a runaround in Kandy for several hours before heading off to the mountains in south-central Sri Lanka. I was ushered into a few factories along the way. One was a wood carving factory that produced many elephants and other objects that looked very familiar to me from international craft shops in the USA. <\/p>\n

\"Traditional
Traditional Wooden Chair with Elephant Carvings \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Decorative
Decorative Wood Carving with Elephants \u2013 Craft Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Artisans
Artisans Hand-Painting Traditional Wooden Crafts \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hand-Painted
Hand-Painted Wooden Elephant Figurines \u2013 Craft Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Artisan
Artisan Hand Carving Traditional Wooden Table \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Decorative
Decorative Wood Carving with Elephants \u2013 Craft Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Artisan
Artisan Sanding Traditional Wooden Elephant Crafts \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Traditional
Traditional Sri Lankan Carved Masks \u2013 Craft Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hand-Carved
Hand-Carved Wooden Elephant Figurines \u2013 Craft Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Decorative
Decorative Wood Carving \u2013 Craft Workshop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Traditional
Traditional Inlaid Wooden Nesting Tables with Elephant Motifs \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was getting the hard sales pitch when busloads of other tourists suddenly flooded in to distract the sales employees. It’s not like I don’t appreciate their work, but when you’re extensively trekking through many countries on your way around the world, you have to travel light and don’t have much space or weight available in your backpack. On these seven-month journeys, my pictures are my souvenirs! <\/p>\n

\"Batik
Batik Mandala Pillow Design \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also visited a batik clothing factory a few doors down the street that produced some nice designs but wasn’t nearly as bustling. <\/p>\n

\"Traditional
Traditional Elephant Batik Artwork \u2013 Batik Shop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Batik
Batik Making \u2013 Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Colourful
Colourful Elephant Batik Textile \u2013 Batik Shop, Kandy, Sri Lanka<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did a bit of a runaround in Kandy for several hours before heading off to the mountains in south-central Sri Lanka. I was ushered into a few factories along the way. One was a wood carving factory that produced many elephants and other objects that looked very familiar to me from international craft shops… Continue reading Craftshops of the World<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"wpgpxmaps_activity":[],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sri-lanka","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sHuW-20n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7711"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7721,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7711\/revisions\/7721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7711"},{"taxonomy":"wpgpxmaps_activity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/day.lat\/lon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wpgpxmaps_activity?post=7711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}