Kutch Kamangiri Heritage
Collectible works shaped by the nearly lost wall-painted traditions of Kutch.
Each piece carries traces of place, time, and observation.
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One heritage. Different material expressions.
One heritage.
Different material expressions.
Kamangiri was a painted tradition that once lived across the interior walls of merchant homes, forts, and palace interiors across Kutch, created by the Kamangars, craftsmen who brought the same care they gave to decorating bows and ceremonial arms to the painted surfaces of the buildings around them.At House of Kutch, this tradition is the centre of more than three years of ongoing field research, documenting surviving examples, studying motifs, understanding materials, and slowly reviving the practice in its original form. The collectibles on this page emerge directly from that research.
Kamangiri lives on here through two distinct material expressions, each rooted in the same fieldwork, the same motifs, and the same documented visual language, but made through different materials and different processes.The Mineral Revival Series works in natural mineral pigments on terracotta, slate, and limestone, the closest contemporary expression to how Kamangiri was originally made, reviving a material practice that had fallen silent since around 1900. The Studio Series brings the same motifs and mythologies onto reclaimed teak using acrylic, a contemporary medium on a heritage surface, making the tradition accessible in a different form.
Both series are limited. Both carry the same depth of research. The material is different. The story is the same.
Kamangiri, Mineral Revival Series
Created on terracotta, slate, and limestone using natural mineral pigments, reviving the original material practice of Kamangiri for the first time since around 1900. Each work is shaped by ongoing field research into the painted traditions of Kutch.
Kamangiri, Studio Series
Hand-painted acrylic works on reclaimed teak, shaped by ongoing research into the motifs, mythologies, and visual language of Kamangiri. Each piece carries unique surface variations and details drawn directly from field documentation.
