Weekly Haat Wall Art

Weekly Haat — 2 museum-grade prints, engineered to a wall. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, centred on the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur near Puri, worked in five mineral colours on patta with crisp lamp-black contour and profile figures. The haat — the weekly open-air market that rotates between villages — is a fixture of rural Odisha and eastern India, where farmers, fishers, potters and traders gather to sell on a set day. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. The weekly haat is the rhythm of plateau village economy — forest produce such as mahua flowers, tendu leaves, sal-leaf plates and lac, gathered and sold by the same women who paint the walls.

Updated 22 Jun 2026