Pipli is one road in Puri district where tailor families have cut and stitched chandua appliqué for the Jagannath temple longer than anyone kept records. Canopies, banners, ceremonial umbrellas and the covers that dress the Rath Yatra chariots all come off the same low workbenches — shapes scissored from dyed cotton, laid on an opaque base cloth, held with buttonhole and satin stitch, and ringed with small mirrors that catch light in the dark of the temple.

The system takes the cloth literally. The page is the black base; everything else is a patch sitting on it. Four canonical shades carry the whole thing, colours are locked by deity rather than chosen per screen, and depth is refused outright — a shape is separated from its ground by a stitch line and a colour change, never by a shadow.