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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Ram and Sita

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate of Ram and Sita sitting on a throne is hand-painted using nat...

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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Lord Krishna Disguised as Shepherd

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying Lord Krishna as a shepherd is hand-painted using n...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, portrait of a woman painting, woman painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of a Woman's Portrait

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying rural woman's portrait is hand-painted using natur...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Rural scene painting, Rural woman waiting for her beloved painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of a Woman Waiting for Her Beloved

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying a woman waiting for her lover is hand-painted usin...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Royal painting, Queen riding in a chariot painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Queen's Chariot

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying a queen on her chariot is hand-painted using natur...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, White elephant ride painting, White elephant ride in forest painting, Forest scene painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of a White Elephant Ride

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying an elephant ride is hand-painted using natural col...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Rural scene painting, Rural men playing musical instruments painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Rural Festivities

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying rural festivities is hand-painted using natural co...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Royal painting, King and Queen taking blessing from learned person painting, Telangana folk art
    Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Royal painting, King and Queen taking blessing from learned person painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of a Sage Blessing the King and Queen

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying a sage blessing a king and queen is hand-painted u...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Lord Krishna disguise painting, Lord Krishna Painting, Shepard painting, Lord Krishna disguising as Shepard taking care of cows painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Lord Krishna as a Shepherd

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying Lord Krishna as a shepherd is hand-painted using n...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Rural women painting, Rural women worshiping Lord Vishnu wall painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Women Offering Prayers to Vishnu

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying women offering prayers to Lord Vishnu is hand-pain...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Rural woman painting, Peacock painting, Rural woman enjoying with peacock painting, wildlife painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Woman Appreciating Nature

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying a woman appreciating nature is hand-painted using ...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, Rural woman painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Two Women

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying two women bonding is hand-painted using natural co...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, lord vishnu devotees painting, Rural women painting, Rural women worshiping Lord Vishnu wall painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Lord Vishnu

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate devoted to worship of Lord Vishnu is hand-painted using natur...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, elephant ride painting, elephant painting, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of an Elephant Ride

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying an elephant ride is hand-painted using natural col...

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  • Cheriyal Painting, Nakashi Art, miniatured cheriyal painting, cheriyal handprinted wall hanging plate, painting of rural women, Telangana folk art
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    Cheriyal Wall Plate of Rural Women Dressing Up

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 12 days

    Spruce up your home decor with a dash of traditions. This vibrant cheriyal wall plate portraying rural women dressing up is hand-painted using natu...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll,Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, village art, harvest painting, traditional art,
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    Cheriyal Painting of Rural Women Winnowing Rice

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 7 days

    Portraying one facet of rural life, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rakes...

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    Cheriyal Painting of Women Grinding Rice

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 7 days

    Portraying one facet of rural life, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rakes...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll painting, ,Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, traditional art, wall art, woman man art, village folk, folk art,
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    Cheriyal Painting of a Rural Couple

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 7 days

    Portraying one facet of rural life, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rakes...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll painting, ,Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, traditional art, wall art, bullock cart art, village art, scenery,
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    Cheriyal Painting of a Bullock Cart

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 7 days

    Portraying one facet of rural life, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rakes...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll painting, ,Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, traditional art, wall art, Krishna art, devotee art, Krishna devotee art,
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    Cheriyal Painting of Lord Krishna with Gopis

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 7 days

    Portraying a glimpse of Krishna leela, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Ra...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll, Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, village art, traditional art, village scenery, harvest festival, sankranti festival, folk art, rural life,
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    Cheriyal Painting of Traditional Rural Rituals

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 15 days

    Portraying traditional rural rituals, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rak...

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    Cheriyal Painting of Rural Women at Work

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 15 days

    Portraying one facet of rural life, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rakes...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll, Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, 10 avatars of vishnu, vishnu avatars, traditional folk art,
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    Cheriyal Painting of Lord Vishnu's Dashavtara

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 15 days

    Portraying Lord Vishnu's Dashavtara, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Rake...

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  • Nakashi, village, scroll, Telangana, painting, warangal, Telangana art, Lord Krishna , Krishna leela, traditional folk art, narrative art form
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    Cheriyal Painting of Krishna Leela

    D. Rakesh
    Made to order. Making time: 15 days

    Portraying a glimpse of Krishna leela, this cheriyal painting on canvas is done by hand and duly signed by the national-award winning artist, D. Ra...

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The art of Cheriyal Scroll painting endures a tough fight in a world that no longer feels the need for this colourful and elaborate form of ancient story-telling. Made solely by the members of the Nakashi caste in present-day Telangana, it uses natural fabric and colours – khadi as a base and only naturally extracted pigments such as tamarind-seed paste, tree gums, river shells etc. Sometimes the scrolls contain close to fifty panels, each forming a sort of chapter in a book.

Rakesh, a renowned Cheriyal painter, lives in a joint family with his parents and his brother’s family. They are one of the few Cheriyal artists who left the village of Cheriyal to find a new market in the town of Boduppal in Secunderabad. Apart from making the scroll paintings, he also makes Cheriyal masks, a more modern adaptation of the craft.

Work involves painting for eight to ten hours a day, paying attention to neat lines and detailed expressions of characters in the stories or masks. He purchases natural water colours from Vijaywada and the required Khadi fabric from the local market. Rakesh’s monthly income is an average of fifteen thousand rupees a month.

“I want to innovate more and make Cheriyal available to everyone, not just collectors and museums. We are trying to see how to increase public awareness by creating smaller items while retaining the craft technique.”, Rakesh says with pride. He worries about future generations abandoning the craft. Despite the GI tag and the fact that patrons do appreciate the scroll art, it isn’t enough to sustain this vulnerable craft.

In the months of September and October, Rakesh’s family conducts workshops at schools and colleges in a bid to intrigue students and sow the seeds of interest.