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Madhubani painting: lotus pond, bamboo grove, fish

Madhubani — A kohbar composition: a ring of lotus blossoms around a stalked bamboo grove, a pair of fish, two parrots facing, a tortoise below, the sun and the moon in the upper corners, every remaining gap filled with dots and hatched cross-lines., bharni Madhubani, flat colour filled inside a heavy double outline, no shading anywhere

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Reading 1Kohbar panel
Reading 2Double border
Reading 3All-over

Mithila women paint the kohbar on the wall of the wedding chamber, and now on handmade paper: lotus pond, bamboo grove, fish and parrots, every gap filled. These nine render that repertoire in bharni's filled colour and kachni's hatched line, with a double border throughout. Ask for a different motif — sun and moon, a peacock, a tree of life — and the same two hands carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each painting is drawn at a proportion suited to standard paper sizes, with an even margin and double border, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4.
Can I get a different motif, like a peacock or sun and moon?
Yes — the direction field takes any motif from the Madhubani repertoire, and the same two hands render it.
What's the difference between bharni and kachni?
Bharni fills the forms with flat, dense colour; kachni draws the same subjects with fine hatched line and leaves more of the paper open.
Is this respectful of real Madhubani painting traditions?
The set draws on the Mithila painting tradition's visual technique — filled or hatched forms bordered on handmade paper — as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific painter's work.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.