About Mata Ni Pachedi Temple Cloth
Mata-ni-Pachedi is the block-printed and hand-painted mother-goddess shrine cloth of the Vaghari community of Gujarat. It is a strictly three-color textile: madder-brick red figures, iron-black outlines, and the de-starched cotton itself — soaked in harda (myrobalan) to a warm tan — serving as the "white."
This design system distills that ritual textile into digital form: a harda-tinted tan ground, bold block-printed red figures, iron-black outlines, dense narrative registers framing a central enthroned goddess, and matte hand-printed texture. No blue, no green, no gold — only red, black, and the natural cloth.
- Origin
- Ahmedabad and Saurashtra, Gujarat, India
- Era
- 1900–1950 (centuries-old ritual tradition; current revival ~2000s)
- Key figures
- Vaghari (Devipujak) shrine-cloth artisans · Chitara family painters of Ahmedabad
- Movements
- Indian temple-cloth painting · Kalamkari-related mordant dyeing · Block-printed devotional textile
Mata Ni Pachedi Temple Cloth design spec
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