COVER N. 604 -  SRI LANKA

Postmark: Headquarters P.O. Colombo Mail 19.06.2025

Posted on the 25th June; Received on the 2nd July 2025

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Handicrafts... one of the most sincere and quintessential artistic expressions of any culture. Unique, specific to a people, a community, a society, a nation, a country and yet, sometimes, the forged by time result of cross-cultural influences, what makes any such piece even more interesting, for in a way it embodies the knowledge, the feelings, the essence of sometimes opposing cultures, the conqueror and the conquered, the master and the slave, the coloniser and the colonised....

Palmyrah weaving..... they do it in Sri Lanka, in India....

I was 6, my sister 10.... we too learned to weave palm leaves so as to create baskets and other stuff... we were in the South of Portugal, Faro, the Algarve province....

That's the beauty of culture.... it is permeable, borderless and a lot richer because of that!

Bohomȧ  sthoothi, Ravi. Great cover!

The 10 x 15 Rupee stamp set on the cover, themed on Traditional Handicrafts of Sri Lanka was issued on 25JAN2022.

Each stamp showcases one of the country's most traditional handicrafts, these being, left to right, top to bottom:

Traditional painting on pottery and ceramics; Leather based crafts; stone carvings; Pottery; Embroidery; Ceramics; Talipot based crafts; Bamboo based crafts; Rattan based crafts and Palmyrah based crafts.

Postmark, as usual, from the central P.O. at Colombo.