Warli - Aavartan | 100% Linen | Limited Edition

Warli Aavartan hand-painted linen shirt featuring detailed Warli village and Tarpa dance scenes across the shoulders, photographed in an architectural doorway.

Warli - Aavartan | 100% Linen | Limited Edition

₹ 10,000.00

✓ Geometric Figures, Composed Line by Line

✓ Warli Painting, Executed Entirely by Hand

✓ Only 2 Pieces Made

Aavartan presents two hand-painted Warli compositions across the shoulders of a linen shirt.

One composition records figures within a landscape of cultivation and village life: people carrying agricultural produce, vegetation, a bird and an animal occupy the same narrative field. The second depicts the Tarpa dance, with men and women moving together alongside the Tarpa musician.

The compositions are painted entirely by hand, retaining the geometric construction and narrative vocabulary associated with Warli painting. Variations in line, proportion and the deposition of pigment remain visible as evidence of the painting process rather than being corrected into mechanical uniformity.

Aavartan, meaning recurrence, cycle or rhythmic return, refers to the relationship between the two compositions. Cultivation, harvest, gathering and celebration appear not as isolated events, but as recurring parts of community life.

Placed across fine linen, the paintings allow a traditional narrative language to inhabit a contemporary garment while retaining the character of the hand that made it.

Warli art emerges from the visual traditions of the Warli communities of western India, particularly in the regions of present-day Maharashtra and adjoining Gujarat. The practice is recognised through the use of geometric forms, including circles, triangles and lines, arranged to depict human activity, agriculture, rituals and community life. Traditionally executed using white pigment on earthen surfaces, Warli art places emphasis on movement, relationship and collective experience rather than individual portraiture.

Its visual language remains one of the most distinctive forms of narrative representation in Indian folk art. Characterised by rhythmic compositions and symbolic simplification, Warli communicates complex observations through elemental forms and spatial relationships.

The artworks presented here are contemporary hand-painted works executed by artisan practitioners associated with the living tradition of Warli art and adapted for garments developed by The House of Rule Zero. They are created as original works on garments and should not be understood as historical reproductions, ritual paintings or documentary recreations of traditional Warli wall paintings.

Art Form	Warli Painting
Artwork	Tarpa dance, village life, deer, birds and flowering vegetation
Artist	Mr. Dattatreya Shravan Naik
Material	100% Linen
Fabric	Machine-Woven
Technique	Geometric Figures Composed with Lines & Shapes
Artwork Placement	Front Right Shoulder and Front Left Shoulder
Fit	Regular Fit
Sleeve	Half sleeve with Roll Up Hem
Collar	Classic Point Collar
Edition	Limited to 2 Pieces
Availability	One Piece per Size
Place Of Making	Raigad, Maharashtra
Country of Origin	India

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The fabric has undergone a process of pre-shrinking, but there might be certain shrinkages in initial washes

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Product imagery is captured under natural lighting conditions to represent the object as faithfully as possible. Variations in ambient light, photographic interpretation, device displays and screen settings may result in slight differences between the colour shown online and the actual product.

Hand-painted pigments and embroidery threads may also appear differently under changing light conditions owing to the nature of the materials and fibres used in their creation.

Each piece is individually hand painted and may contain subtle variations in brushwork, line quality, paint density and motif execution. These characteristics arise through the movement of the artist’s hand and form part of the individuality of the object. They should not be considered defects.

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Warli - Aavartan | 100% Linen | Limited Edition

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