Alpona Peg Table - Hand-Painted Bengali Folk Art Side Table peacock folk art mirror The motifs are bold and

The motifs are bold and graphic — triangles

contemporary-leaning gift for someone who wants folk art without a strictly traditional colour story

using natural pigments and a fine brush for the line work

or any occasion calling for blessings of abundance

and 4 inches in depth

Alpona Peg Table - Hand-Painted Bengali Folk Art Side Table peacock folk art mirror The motifs are bold andLong before the first diya is lit on Diwali morning, Bengali households have a quieter ritual: at dawn, women mix rice paste into a wash of white and trace alpona across the threshold sweeping lotus vines, paisley curls, fish and footprints, all drawn freehand from memory, never from a stencil. It is one of India's oldest surviving folk art traditions, meant to welcome Lakshmi, bless a wedding, or mark a harvest. By evening, footsteps and rain wash it