Wedding Wall Art Wall Art

Wedding Wall Art — 3 museum-grade prints on the theme. Kohbar — also called Purain in Kayastha Mithila vocabulary — is the ritual painting tradition tied to the Kohbar Ghar, the nuptial chamber where bride and groom first meet after wedding rites and spend their first days together. Among Karna Kayastha and Brahmin communities in Madhubani district, women paint these walls with cow-dung and mud base coats, natural pigments, and motifs blessing fertility, prosperity, and marital harmony. Kohbar — also called puren in Kayastha households — is the Madhubani style tied to the nuptial chamber (kohbar ghar) where Maithil bride and groom traditionally spend their first nights after marriage. Before painting begins, women coat the central wall with mud and cow dung, then perform tip lagavaichi — placing a vermillion sindoor dot at the composition centre, often by an ahibati (married woman whose husband lives).

Updated 14 Jun 2026