Mug - Kalighat Pat Forest Gift Set These balis with semi-precious stones

These balis with semi-precious stones are elegant

women painted them on walls using colours made from charcoals

though it is Turko-Persian in origin

the five-story Palace of Winds

mural from the walls of a crumbling haveli

Mug - Kalighat Pat Forest Gift Set These balis with semi-precious stonesFolk art ceramic mugs that will brighten up any home or office. Packed in a box that tells a little story about the art form it makes a perfect gift. Migrant patuas, or scroll painters, converged around Kalighat temple in Kolkata early in the 18th century to give rise to a new school. For over a hundred years the pilgrims offered a ready market for the pats. A majority of the Kalighat pats treated religious and traditional subjects, but the