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Madhubani Painting
Tree of Life, bharni fill
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Bharni is the filled style — solid colour bounded by a double line, traditionally painted by women of the Brahmin caste. Turmeric yellow, lampblack, and red from crushed kusum flower.
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Madhubani Painting · Madhubani, Bihar
Sita learned Madhubani at six, sitting behind her grandmother on a mud floor in Jitwarpur. She paints in the kachni line style — fine hatching, no shading, the pigment ground from lampblack, turmeric and crushed marigold. A single wedding panel takes her three weeks, and she refuses to draw a fish without its whiskers, because her grandmother said a fish without whiskers cannot swim to the next life.