Cherial village · Siddipet district · Telangana
Where Telangana's 400-year-old scroll art is still painted by hand.
This is the village home of Cheriyal painting — the GI-tagged Nakashi art of khadi scrolls, deep maroon skies and folk stories — kept alive today by a small circle of artisan families. Ganesh Nakashi Art Works is one of them: a working family studio posting its masks, panels and painted crafts straight from the village.
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- GI tag — Cheriyal scroll painting
A 400-year-old storytelling art · khadi cloth, natural pigments, squirrel-hair brushes · red-&-white villagescapes, epics & Bathukamma · masks, scrolls, wood, cloth & return gifts
The last village of a dying art·and a family still painting
Cheriyal (Nakashi) painting
Stylised Nakashi art that grew up in Cherial, Siddipet district: narratives from the Ramayana, Mahabharata, Krishna tales and village life, painted on layered khadi canvas in bold outlines over a signature deep-red ground. When storytellers still toured the Telugu countryside with musical instruments, the painted scroll was their visual script.
The craft holds a Geographical Indication tag of Telangana, and as press profiles have noted, it survives through only a handful of artist families — including a husband-and-wife team from this village whose work was chronicled by The NewsMinute and The Hindu.
Studio work — via the artist's Instagram, @cheriyal_paintings_
What the studio makes
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“Everything on that grid was painted in one village — with a brush the width of a squirrel’s tail.”
Studio feed, @cheriyal_paintings_ · 8,110 followers
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