Back to Craft Heritage
Painting
Rogan Art
TownNirona
StateGujarat
Craft typePainting
GI tagNot yet registered
About
A rare cloth-painting technique using a thick, brightly coloured castor-oil paste applied freehand with a metal stylus, historically kept alive by a single family in the village of Nirona.
Did you know? Rogan artists never sketch a design first — the paste is stretched into fine threads and applied entirely freehand, and one signature technique folds the cloth in half to create a perfectly symmetrical mirror image.