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Balinese Kamasan Painting — Cover

About Balinese Kamasan Painting

Kamasan painting is Bali's classical wayang-style narrative art, painted on rice-paste-primed cotton cloth in natural earth pigments aged to a warm tobacco-ochre tone. Fine ink-outlined profile figures march in horizontal registers, telling the Mahabharata and Ramayana.

This design system distills that hereditary cloth-painting tradition into screen form — an aged ochre ground, iron-oxide reds, indigo and gold-leaf accents, and ordered narrative registers that read like a hand-painted frieze.

Learn more about the Balinese Kamasan Painting style

Origin
Kamasan, Klungkung, Bali, Indonesia (Southeast Asia)
Era
Pre-1900 (centuries-old tradition centred on Kamasan village; classical wayang lineage)
Key figures
Hereditary Kamasan painter families · Klungkung court painters · Nyoman Mandra · I Nyoman Dogol
Movements
Classical Balinese wayang painting · Kamasan school · Hindu epic narrative art

Balinese Kamasan Painting design spec

Colors

Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text

Typography

Noto Serif BalineseHeadings
EB GaramondBody
CardoMono
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