3 plates hang in this room, in order of date. The hub shows twenty; the rooms hold everything.
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Madhubani
Mithila, living traditionnatural pigment on paper, bamboo nibdrawn with: flat pigment fills · every contour doubled (black stroke split by a paper line) · own infill motifs (fish, lotus, sun, bird, sprig) packed edge to edge · banded borderkind: living tradition
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Warli
Maharashtra, living traditionrice paste on ochre mud walldrawn with: fbm mud-wall ground · rice-paste triangles, circles and wobbling twig ribbons · village dance scene, own composition · rig axes as single-line limbskind: living tradition
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Kente strip weave
Ghana, living traditionstrip-loom silk and cottondrawn with: cells() weave grid · warp-faced stripe blocks alternating with weft-faced band blocks · figure woven as weft cells · own colour sequence, no named pattern, no adinkrakind: living tradition