What the cloth keeps alive
Three colors carry the whole shrine —
the cotton itself is the light.
3
Pigments only
Madder brick-red
52%
The Mata and her attendants — alizarin from boiled madder root, fixed with alum.
Brighter alizarin
26%
Borders, lamps and the narrative registers that frame the central shrine.
Iron-rust black
22%
Every block-printed outline — fermented iron and jaggery, drawn bold and ritual.