Olive Green Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art hand painted kalamkari gift with the swirling serpent motifs

with the swirling serpent motifs and crescent detailing hand-painted by our studio artisans in fine black and gold linework — patient

Thanjavur doll is a traditional handicraft of Thanjavur region of Chennai

for an NRI relative who wants a small

dried tamarind-sawdust composite

is built around exactly that kind of everyday practicality

Olive Green Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art hand painted kalamkari gift with the swirling serpent motifsMost Cheriyal masks lean toward the reds, yellows, and oranges associated with festival colour, so an olive green pair stands a little apart closer to the tone of neem leaves and the courtyard mud walls found in the villages around Cheriyal, near Warangal in Telangana, than to a festive palette. The form and the making, though, are unchanged: this is still the same 400 year old Nakashi craft, GI tagged since 2010, that was once used by travelling