Commanding Wall Art

Commanding — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a ritual shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak ('worshippers of the Goddess') community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Historically barred from entering temples, the community painted the Goddess onto cotton and carried their own portable shrine, so the cloth itself becomes the sacred space where the Mother is invoked. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, worked in five mineral colours on patta — cotton stiffened with tamarind-seed paste and chalk: conch-white (sankha), lamp-black (kalia), haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Kali, the dark fierce form of the Devi, is shown in the classic Dakshina-Kali pose standing on the prone Shiva, with a garland of severed heads and a sword — a central Shakta subject worshipped especially at Kali Puja in eastern India.

Updated 22 Jun 2026