Homely Wall Art

Homely — 15 museum-grade prints that set the mood. 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, often as a threshold or floor welcome at Diwali to invite Lakshmi into the home. Here the diyas, marigold toran and floor rangoli are the everyday Diwali vocabulary translated into Aipan's two-tone line. 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. 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. The southwest monsoon shapes Odisha life from June onward; the morning vegetable market trading on under the rain is one of its most ordinary, durable sights.

Updated 22 Jun 2026