Home decoration and garden stores Kathmandu

The shops selling singing bowls are numerous in Thamel but this one seduced us for its particularly well finished objects. The singing bowls are related to the pre-Buddhist animist shamanist Bön culture of the Himalayas, hence their name "Tibetan bowls". The sounds emitted by these bowls would indeed have relaxing properties supposed to destroy negative thoughts and would make it possible to put our chakras back in the right alignment. We'll let you try...

Originally from the Mithila region of Bihar State, the women of Mithila traditionally decorate the walls of their houses with motifs at weddings and other ceremonies. Mithila painting as a contemporary art form was born in the early 1960s, following the terrible famine in Bihar. For those who would not be lucky enough to travel to the Terai to enjoy mithila art, the shop displays a wide range of traditionally painted objects. The paintings, naive and colorful, are affixed on all kinds of objects: mirrors, boxes..