Red Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art indian art gifting representing its radiance

representing its radiance

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

Will the brass surface tarnish over time

Cast in an antique-gold finish

Red Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art indian art gifting representing its radianceRed 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