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The Making of Thangka Paintings
by Tomo ·

Most of the thangkas are painted on a canvas. Some are painted on paper or leather. Other are embroidered, applied, woven and patchwork thangkas, but the Sketching else forms are not discussed here. Technically making a painted thangka occurs in four stages.
Preparing the foundation:
The kind of thangka under discussion here, the canvas you buy, is made of a woven material: cotton, linen, and sometimes silk. A finely woven structure, made of a single piece of fabric, is best, because paint easily chips off of thicker to rougher fabrics when the thangka is rolled up. The painted canvas is rectangular in shape, taller than it is wide, ideally measuring on the average 30inches tall by 20 inches wide (75 by 50centimeters). (more…)

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