World Heritage Dhamapur Lake On the hand-woven Stole (Scarf)

Motifs and the theme behind it: 

The green and yellow colour line shows the green forest and aracanut orchid. A tiny grey line is the road towards Malwan Taluka.

The red colour patch reflects the soil of Dhamapur and the 32 Ghats which once believed to act as an indicator of water level. It is said that if water level crosses the last 32 step, there is a danger of flood and if the water level decreases the 1^st step, there is a danger is drought.

The ancient temple of Goddess Bhagwati can be seen on the Ghat.

Then comes the shades of water, well-presented with the sky blue, blue and dark blue colour dyed with the natural Indigo. These shades of water are a deep water ecosystem of the Lake.

The backwaters or shallow water ecosystem of lake is shown with the green colour (Indigo and Harda dye), Yellow (Onion skin dye), grey (Iron rust). The entire pattern of stole narrates the importance of deep water ecosystem and shallow water ecosystem of Dhamapur Lake.

• The diversity of plants
• The community and their livelihood depend on the lake and its surrounding diversity.
• The diversity of fish
• The diversity of butterflies

The wise development:

• This motif reflects the term development.
• This motif reflects the term conservation.

The last pattern of the stole with these two motifs, explains the concept of wise development. The development is needed; however, the development should never be human-centric. The peripheral ecology and nature pattern should be protected and studied. The wise development includes the balance and conservation of ecology and development of human livelihood. And if the one understands this, follows this, the life would be colorful and joyful like this pompoms (ornamental tufts or Jhumkas).