Travel Memorabilia Wall Wall Art

Travel Memorabilia Wall — 6 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community as long narrative cloths unrolled by travelling balladeers. The form traditionally carried epics and caste legends; contemporary Cheriyal painters have extended the same flat-red grammar to everyday Indian life. Kachni is the Kayastha women's line tradition within Madhubani painting — historically distinct from Brahmana Bharni flat-fill work. Where Bharni shouts in vermillion and lampblack solids, Kachni whispers through parallel hatching, stippling, and cross-hatching laid down with bamboo sticks, twigs, and fingers on cream or mud-plaster ground. 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 Konark Sun temple, built in the 13th century as a colossal stone chariot of the sun god Surya, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1984); its twenty-four carved wheels are among the most recognised images in Odisha.

Updated 22 Jun 2026