Page 1 of 1

Traditional Indian archery

Posted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 1:46 am
by shikari
Hi all,I am an archery enthusiast and like building my own archery equipment.I am particularly interested in making traditional bows from India and surrounding areas,If anyone has any pictures of bows and arrows I would really love to see them,Tribal or others does not matter.
Thanks

Re: Traditional Indian archery

Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:49 pm
by shootingstars
Hi, I have good models of bow manufacturing, I shall send you the pics soon.

Re: Traditional Indian archery

Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:53 pm
by shikari
Hello,
I would appericiate if you could send me pictures of the traditional Indian bows,particularly Mughal crabbows or any other bows from the meuseums in India.I had visited the Salarjung meuseum in Hydrabad a long time ago and can't recall if there are any bows in the collection there,I would appericiate if you could let me know about that.
Thanks

Re: Traditional Indian archery

Posted: Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:41 pm
by kitty
Hi I am also a bow enthusiast I made one with twine threads, Beeding wood (thin slices of flat teak wood used for lining of furniture). I ll send u a pic soon.

Krishna
BSK II stage, Bangalore.