Red Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art indian art gifting or for anyone seeking blessings

or for anyone seeking blessings of prosperity

A loop is fixed to the back of each piece for direct wall mounting

meaning "circle" in Sanskrit

Cast in an antique-gold finish

more weathered Kalamkari textiles - a colour that reads as heritage rather than festive-bright

Red Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art indian art gifting or for anyone seeking blessingsRed is, historically, the base colour of Cheriyal art itself the background shade most often used in the original scroll paintings from which this mask making tradition descends, before green or white were sometimes worked in as accents. A red Cheriyal mask, then, sits closest to the visual language the Nakashi community of Cheriyal village, near Warangal in Telangana, has used for roughly 400 years, a craft recognised with a Geographical Indication