Wedding Art Prints Wall Art

Wedding Art Prints — 38 museum-grade prints on the theme. 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. 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. The chholiya is Kumaon's martial sword-and-shield dance, performed by costumed dancers who lead wedding processions to the beat of dhol-damau and the turi-ransingha horns. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolours to pilgrims. Alongside gods and goddesses they produced what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the salesmen, brokers and self-interested intermediaries of Calcutta society.

Updated 22 Jun 2026