Prayer Room Wall Art

Prayer Room — 18 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, drawn traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) on a geru (red-ochre) earth ground. Jageshwar Dham is a celebrated cluster of stone temples set in a deodar forest valley near Almora, sacred to Shiva and reached on foot through the trees — a living pilgrimage in the Kumaon hills. Pushtimarg homes keep a dressed Thakurji — a small Krishna icon served through the day with fresh clothes, food and lamps, exactly as the Nathdwara haveli serves Shrinathji. A pichhwai (literally 'that which hangs at the back') is the painted cloth hung behind the deity to set the scene; here the cloth frames a household shrine.

Updated 22 Jun 2026