Domestic Warm Wall Art

Domestic Warm — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a ritual shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak ('worshippers of the Goddess') community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who, barred from temples, painted the Goddess on cloth to make their own portable shrine. The pol is the traditional clustered courtyard housing of Ahmedabad's walled old city — a UNESCO World Heritage City — known for carved wooden balconies, shared courtyards, jhula swings, communal wells and chabutaro bird-feeders. Khovar is the marriage and household wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, combed by women of tribal and Kurmi communities using a sgraffito technique — a wet white kaolin slip over a dark base coat, combed and scratched away with a broken comb so the dark ground reads as line. The aripan (also called aripana or chowk) is the auspicious threshold floor drawing women lay at the door around harvest, Sohrai and weddings to welcome cattle, guests and fortune, often with a lit diya. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. Mahua — the cream flowers of the mahua tree — is a staple forest gather of the plateau, eaten, traded and fermented into the local brew distilled in earthen pots over a courtyard fire.

Updated 22 Jun 2026