The stencil art of Sanjhi has its roots in Indian folk culture and is associated with Vaishnav temple traditions. An exhibition in Mumbai throws light on it. As an eight-year-old, paper artist ...

Is sanjhi the design made using flowers and stones or is it the name given to the paper stencils?” Gopal explains: “See, the traditional images created with flowers and stones are called sanjhi.

Paper-cutting is a modern avatar of traditional folk art called “Sanjhi,” the art of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. It is the art of designing paper cuts by hand. Traditionally, these stencils were ...

Simplistically put, Sanjhi is a humble craft of making rangoli-like designs usually on a mud platform or on the floor using special hand-cut patterns akin to stencils. The paper patterns are ...

These stencils are cut freehand using a scissor or a blade and the delicate Sanjhi is often held together by thin sheets of paper. PM Modi gifted a Madhya Pradesh-origin Gond art painting to newly ...

Sanjhi is the art of hand-cutting designs on paper. Traditionally motifs from Lord Krishna's stories are created in stencils. These stencils are cut freehand using a scissor or a blade.

20 Sanjhi khakha (stencils) and four Vedhi Sanjhi creations transferred to the canvas as well. “Madanji also plans to collaborate further with the Sanjhi artists in the future, and we hope ...