Warli folk painting
Lakshmi Bai
Ganjad, Maharashtra · 18 years at the bench
Lakshmi paints in the traditional Warli style — rice paste on a clay-red wash — but applies it to seasoned mango wood instead of mud walls.
She leads a 12-woman collective and is the sole female master in her cluster of villages.
A longer, in-person profile of Lakshmi is being written for our journal. Until then, every piece from this workshop ships with an artisan card signed by its maker.