Shiv Parvathy Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art tholu flower coasters Monochrome intensifies the detail here

Monochrome intensifies the detail here — with no colour to distract

and where does the peacock motif come from

No extra conditioning needed

the craft itself

and as a thoughtful memento for NRI relatives or friends abroad

Shiv Parvathy Cheriyal Mask – Hand-painted Folk Art tholu flower coasters Monochrome intensifies the detail hereShiva and Parvati appear frequently across Cheriyal's traditional mould set, made by Nakashi artisans in Cheriyal village near Warangal in Telangana as part of a mask making craft close to 400 years old. In this set, the two are rendered as a pair of individual masks, each built and painted separately, meant to be hung together as the divine couple rather than merged into one composite face. Shiva's mask carries the expected iconography a crescent