Kalamkari
Cloth as Pen and Myth
Continuity * Devotion
The brush becomes scripture, the cloth
a canvas of myth.
Origin:
Andhra Pradesh
Temple hangings, storytelling scrolls, folklore, carrying oral traditions to visual memory.
Bamboo pen, dipped in a mixture of jaggery-black, rust and indigo. Tales unfurl across the cloth, entities and trees in one.