Folk Precise Wall Art

Folk Precise — 106 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Khovar is the marriage wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, combed by women of tribal and Kurmi communities onto the bridal chamber before a wedding, using a sgraffito technique — wet white kaolin slip over a dark base coat, combed and scratched away with a broken comb so the dark ground reads as line. Paired fish are a classic Khovar fertility motif, promising plenty and increase to the new household, alongside lotus and peacocks. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community. They were long narrative cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeer-storytellers — the kaki padagollu and allied story-telling castes — who sang the epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences through the night. Bathukamma is Telangana's autumn flower festival, held over nine days around Durga Navaratri, when women build a conical stack of seasonal blooms — gunugu, tangedu, marigold — and circle it singing through the evening before floating it on a tank or lake. Cheriyal scroll painting itself comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground and once unrolled by travelling balladeers to narrate epics and caste legends.

Updated 22 Jun 2026