Textiles & Craft
Kalamkari mordant painting
medieval onwardCoromandel artisansAndhra PradeshAndhra Pradesh
1200
Hand-painted and block-printed cotton using mordants and natural dyes.
- Dated
- 1200–1757
- As scholars put it
- medieval onward
- Originator
- Coromandel artisans
- Source text
- Andhra Pradesh
- Region
- Andhra Pradesh
- Discipline
- Textiles & Craft
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Verification
- Reference-cited
Meanwhile in the West
Inspired European chintz.
Fair to say
Part of the wider Indian painted-cotton tradition.
Path to modern innovation
A living textile art.
Transmission
Exported widely.
References
- 1V&A textile studies
Further reading
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