Folk art, reborn on cloth.
108 pieces per drop. Every motif licensed from a living master artisan. Then it ends.
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108
The sacred number
"In yoga, the mala is 108 beads. In astronomy, the sun is 108 diameters from earth. In our atelier, the drop is 108 pieces. Then it ends."
कलमकारी
Akanksha Panigrahi
Andhra Pradesh · Kalamkari artist
पट्टचित्र
Bhagaban Maharana
Raghurajpur, Odisha
मधुबनी
Sita Devi Collective
Madhubani, Bihar
कारीगरी · Kalamkari
The Hands Behind The Thread
Every piece begins in an artisan's hands.
We work directly with folk artists across India. Each motif on a KARM 108 piece starts as an original artwork, adapted for cloth with the artist's consent, credit and fair pay.
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12Days
From first sketch to finished artwork.
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14Hours
Of hand-drawing behind each motif.
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108Pieces
One limited run per drop.
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38Hours
Of painting behind a single panel.
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40Years
Of practice in the Raghurajpur tradition.
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108Edition
Each piece individually numbered.
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40Women
Artists working in the collective.
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9Days
From design to approved sample.
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100%Credit
Every design is named and paid for.
The Archive
Eight folk forms.
One conversation.
Each motif is a living archive, passed by hand, across generations, from one village to the next.
The Journal
Words from
the atelier.
AI × CRAFT
The economics of a hand-painted motif in the age of instant images
A generated image costs a fraction of a rupee. A licensed Pattachitra panel can cost thousands. To some spreadsheets, that makes the artisan look inefficient...
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AI × CRAFT
What the machine cannot copy: AI and the artisan's hand
Ask an image generator for a Madhubani peacock and you will get something peacock-shaped, Madhubani-flavoured, in four seconds. So why does a hand-painted mo...
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