Raas Leela Square Box - Pattachitra Wooden Gift Box traditional home decor India Avoid soaking it or resting

Avoid soaking it or resting very hot cookware directly on the paint

practised by the Nakashi community and awarded a Geographical Indication tag in 2010 for being unique to this one part of the country

the same visual language you'd find on a temple ceiling in Kerala

then hand-paints it in a deep maroon with a deliberately distressed finish

Raas Leela Square Box - Pattachitra Wooden Gift Box traditional home decor India Avoid soaking it or restingUnder a moonlit Vrindavan sky, Krishna multiplies himself to dance with each of the Gopis in a great encircling ring the Raas Leela, one of the most cherished episodes in Vaishnav devotional lore. This square wooden box carries that scene on its lid, rendered in Pattachitra, the scroll painting tradition practised for centuries in the artisan villages of Raghurajpur and Puri in Odisha. Pattachitra begins long before the brush touches wood. A canvas is