Hingula Red Wall Art

Hingula Red — 47 museum-grade prints in this palette. 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, with indigo (nila) for water and sky. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, centred on the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur near Puri and the Jagannath temple. The classical repertoire is mythological, but contemporary chitrakars have always absorbed daily life — markets, festivals, transport — without abandoning the form's discipline: five mineral colours (conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red, geru brick-orange, with indigo for water and sky) on patta cloth, profile figures, crisp lamp-black contour and a slim floral border.

Updated 22 Jun 2026