The Lanka Decorative Arts is a society for the study and appreciation of the decorative arts of Sri Lanka . I wanted to start an interest group of like-minded people who would participate and attend lectures and workshops for discussion,  and dissemination of various aspects of the decorative arts of the island, from all historical periods.  Decorative arts is not an isolated study,  it is an interdisciplinary study that brings together various disciplines and draws from art and art history,  history,  social history,  material culture, design and design history,  archeology, anthropology and architecture