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Home — 21 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Venugopala — Krishna as the cowherd piping his flute (venu) to the cattle, often beneath a kadamba tree — is among the most lyrical Krishna-leela subjects, embodying the music that draws all beings to the divine. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur. Painters work on patta — cotton stiffened with tamarind-seed paste and chalk — using five mineral colours: conch-white (sankha), lamp-black (kalia), haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange.

Updated 22 Jun 2026