Sundari Cheriyal Hand Painted Plate Telangana Valuing sustainable arts and crafts

Valuing sustainable arts and crafts

Since these are hand made

remoulded into these beautiful crafts

the Cheriyal Artists felt the need to shorten the scrolls that depict any single episode or few characters from the traditional story

Sundari Cheriyal Hand Painted Plate Telangana Valuing sustainable arts and craftsCheriyal is a small town in Telangana, the place of origin for Cheriyal paintings. The earliest sight of these Paintings is found in the form of long scrolls. Like a film roll, the scrolls would show a story through a series of horizontal panels stacked one over the other vertically. This would make the scrolls to be around 40 45 feet in length as the folklore would have many different characters and episodes. From mythical narratives to villagers day