Mata ni Pachedi
Ahmedabad's red, black and white temple cloth: Lakshmi in her shrine and the chopda for Chopda Pujan, stamped in black and painted in red as you watch.
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Mata ni Pachedi means the cloth behind the Mother goddess. In Ahmedabad the Chitara painters of the Vaghri community, also called Devipujak, make it as a shrine of cloth: it is hung behind the goddess or stretched around her, and families who could not enter temples once worshipped before it. The goddess sits at the centre on her throne or her animal, and rows of devotees, musicians, horses and stories fill the panels around her. Only three colours are used: black outlines from iron and jaggery, drawn with a bamboo kalam or printed with carved blocks, red from madder, and the white of the cotton itself, washed again and again in the river.
In this film every piece is printed as a pachedi is: the black is stamped on block by block, then the red is painted in. Lakshmi sits in her shrine with two elephants, a procession walks in from both sides towards the kalash, and the chopda, the account book a Gujarati family worships at Chopda Pujan, is printed beside your details. The artwork is drawn in the pachedi style for this film; it is not made by the Chitara painters.
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