Warli - Adiva | 100% Linen | Limited Edition

Warli Adiva hand-painted linen shirt featuring a village-life artwork across the shoulder, photographed in a quiet Indian music room.

Warli - Adiva | 100% Linen | Limited Edition

₹ 9,000.00

✓ Geometric Figures, Composed Line by Line

✓ Warli Painting, Executed Entirely by Hand

✓ Only 4 Pieces Made

Size S M L XL

Fabric ColorBurnt Maroon

Adiva looks to a landscape where people, work and nature move within the same rhythm.

Hand-painted across the shoulder, the Warli composition brings together a branching tree, the sun, birds in flight and figures carrying gathered bundles. Together, they form a continuous scene of movement through the landscape—of gathering, carrying and returning.

The tree anchors the composition while the birds extend it into the sky. Below, the figures introduce the human gesture: the physical act of carrying what has been gathered from the surrounding land. It is an ordinary moment, yet one that speaks to a larger relationship between people, place and the work of everyday life.

This is where Adiva finds its meaning. The composition does not monumentalise labour; it records it. The landscape is not merely a backdrop, and nature is not treated as ornament. People, trees, birds and land inhabit the same visual field, reflecting the interconnected world through which Warli painting has long narrated community life.

Painted directly by hand onto 100% linen, the artwork retains the character of its making. Variations in brush pressure, line, proportion and pigment remain visible rather than being regularised into mechanical precision, preserving the presence of the hand that painted it.

Adiva is a record of continuity—between people and landscape, labour and community, gathering and return.

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	Warli Men and Women, Tree, Birds and Sun
Artist	Mr. Dattatreya Shravan Naik
Material	100% Linen
Fabric	Machine-Woven
Technique	Geometric Figures Composed with Lines & Shapes
Artwork Placement	Front Right Shoulder
Fit	Regular Fit
Sleeve	Half sleeve with Roll Up Hem
Collar	Classic Point Collar
Edition	Limited to 4 Pieces
Availability	One Piece per Size
Place Of Making	Raigad, Maharashtra
Country of Origin	India

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Do not dry in direct sunlight
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.

Certain images may be digitally rendered to illustrate styling, context, scale or garment presentation. While every effort is made to faithfully represent the artwork, construction and character of the object, minor differences in colour, texture, drape or appearance may exist between rendered imagery and the physical product.

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Warli - Adiva | 100% Linen | Limited Edition

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