Red Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art indian art gifting both in gold crowns and

both in gold crowns and formal temple attire

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

Cast in an antique-gold finish

meaning "circle" in Sanskrit

Red Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Telangana Folk Art indian art gifting both in gold crowns andRed 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