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English: Here's how the Tharu women, artists without any formal education in arts, create these beautiful designs:

When the ponds start drying, they dig the sticky clay from the bottom of the pond. Mixing it with cow dung and rice bran, they daub the walls with a layer of straw and the clay mixture.

Applying layers of clay, they come up with intricate designs -- floral and geometric patterns, parrots and peacocks, elephants and horses, among many other beautiful motifs.

Tharu women in Eastern Nepal's Sunsari and Morang districts mix a bit of jute in the clay mixture before creating the designs. This ingenious idea stops them from cracking in the future.

When the design dries, they apply a layer of white clay to it. Then they use natural colours to give them a facelift. Adding a little milk to the colours ensures they don't wear off quickly.
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Author Sanjib Chaudhary
Camera location26° 34′ 02.98″ N, 87° 16′ 52.07″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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Mokha Art from a Tharu household in Labipur, Sunsari District of Eastern Nepal

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16 November 2023

26°34'2.978"N, 87°16'52.072"E

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