Thursday, May 7, 2009

Decorated Morada bagina.






In south Indian wedding morada bagina plays an great role. Mora is made out of bamboo.It is also used to clean lentils and cereals.In olden days new born babies were first kept in new mora and then in a cradle.During wedding Mora, filled with 5 types of lentils,rice,jaggery,salt Haldi,kukkum,blouse piece mirror. comb, black beads etc.. given as a gift. it is called"Morada bagina".During Gowri festival also "Morada bagina" is given as a gift.These are a few morada bagina That I have decorated for my nephew's wedding.

3 comments:

Chinnu said...

Hi Vani,
Am writing a post on Indian Wedding favors and wish to borrow your images of Morada Bagina and Sari box.
I will link to your blog with credits. Hope you don't mind.

puttu said...

Ok
Best wishes
Vani

Unknown said...

really nice designs... i want to do it for my friend's wedding..so can u show some more designs? or if u have any links to pictures related to these? so i get some more ideas...
really nice work... :) loved it...