Regal Wall Art

Regal — 4 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and a UNESCO World Heritage City, planned in 1727 by Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II around a grid of pink sandstone buildings. The Hawa Mahal honeycomb facade and Amber Fort hill palace are its most photographed landmarks — but Rajasthani visual culture also lives in everyday jharokha balconies, jali screens, and block-printed textiles that this poster abstracts into horizontal bands. 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. Vishnu the preserver with Lakshmi, goddess of fortune, enthroned together and attended by his eagle-mount Garuda, is a classic devotional pairing in patta — and in Odisha, Jagannath himself is understood as a form of Vishnu. 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 peacocks are among the most cherished Khovar union motifs, standing for the bride and groom, set facing the central lotus that carries fertility.

Updated 22 Jun 2026