Devi – Hand-painted Kalamkari Wooden Wall Plate festive home decor coasters Art form: Henna (mehndi-inspired) art

Art form: Henna (mehndi-inspired) art

The Dashavatar

practised by the Nakashi community for roughly four centuries

and how does it relate to this design

with the jewellery and headpiece detailing built up in fine gold brushwork rather than applied as a decal or stencil

Devi – Hand-painted Kalamkari Wooden Wall Plate festive home decor coasters Art form: Henna (mehndi-inspired) artA goddess in profile, rendered in the fine, flowing linework of Kalamkari an art form whose name literally means "pen work," historically drawn with a bamboo pen and natural dyes onto cloth and, here, translated onto wood. Set against a deep forest green background and ringed by a delicate border of hand painted leaves, this plate favours pure line and restrained colour over the dense ornamentation of more maximalist Indian folk styles. Kalamkari