Dining Room Wall Art

Dining Room — 447 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was the moment after the cut, so the hero is a large oval medallion holding the threshing floor itself — pairs of yoked oxen walking a circle over the grain while figures drive them and toss it with winnowing forks — and the rest of the harvest stacks in bands above and below. We held the fill to medium and kept the fish-net frame open rather than a packed mesh, with clear oxblood ground around the oval so the oxen, the sheaves and the winnowing read at a glance. 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. Harvest gathering scenes anchor Warli farming narratives — women carriers with head-loads, granary storage, bullock transport document monsoon-to-storage cycle central to Sahyadri Adivasi life. Linked-hand procession lines express communal labour distinct from tarpa circle dance at harvest-eve celebration.

Updated 22 Jun 2026