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Molela Clay Work
TownMolela
StateRajasthan
Craft typePottery
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About
A distinctive terracotta relief-plaque craft depicting Hindu deities and rural deities in vivid, hand-moulded clay, traditionally worshipped by tribal communities across Rajasthan and produced almost exclusively by the Kumhar potter families of Molela.
Did you know? Molela's terracotta plaques are still commissioned today by tribal communities across Rajasthan and Gujarat as votive offerings to local deities — making it one of the few Indian folk crafts still primarily driven by religious rather than decorative or commercial demand.