Ordered Wall Art

Ordered — 4 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, made traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) drawn by fingertip onto a geru — red-ochre earth — ground. A chowki is a seat-diagram drawn to seat an offering or a deity; a dotted square chowki belongs to the vasudhara dot-vocabulary, with swastikas and lotuses marking the auspicious corners and sides. 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. Alongside its animals and creepers, Khovar uses repeating flower lattices to dress whole walls of the nuptial room in patterns of growth and increase.

Updated 22 Jun 2026