Pilikula Artisans Village

The Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka is a land, rich in craftsmanship and culture. The locale's social legacy is clear in its energetic artistic expressions, engineering, society expressions and people sports, well known ceremonies and practices. The distinctive pictures evoked by Yakshagana, Kambala, Bhoota Kola and Naga Mandala leave a consistently enduring impression in the psyche. Dakshina Kannada region has a rich custom of craftsmans – specialists of different expressions and artworks which have propagated down the ages through innate heredity by very gifted skilled workers who rely upon their specialties for vocation. Human expressions and artworks they rehearse incorporate Pottery, Handloom, Cane and Bamboo Products, Carpentry, Blacksmithy, Wood Carving, Stone Carving, Toddy Jaggery, Oil Processing, Beaten Rice, Fish Net Weaving, and Jasmine Culture.