Mithila Art
Madhubani — also called Mithila painting — is a folk tradition of the Mithila region. It is a living practice, still made by hand, and the MITHILA collection exists to carry it onto silk without flattening it.
Storytelling
Mithila painting is narrative before it is decorative. A composition is read as much as it is looked at: figures, creatures and plants are arranged to tell something, and the border is part of the telling rather than a frame around it.
Motifs
The peacock, the fish, the lotus and the sun recur across the tradition. In MITHILA MAYUR the peacock is the subject — a motif long associated with beauty, grace, joy, prosperity and celebration.
Nature
The tradition draws almost entirely on the natural world. Leaves, water, birds and flowering plants fill the space around the central figure, so the composition reads as abundant rather than empty.
Hand-painted expression
Every line is drawn by hand. There is no block, no screen and no repeat, which is why two sarees from the same release are never identical. The variation between them is the signature of the hand that made them.
On silk
Painting on Pure Bhagalpuri Tussar Silk is not the same as painting on paper or cotton. The slub of the tussar takes pigment unevenly, and the artist works with that texture rather than against it.
What this page does not claim.
The House does not publish datable historical claims, origin stories or attributions about the Mithila tradition on this website. What appears here describes the practice as it is used in the MITHILA collection. Scholarly history belongs in the Journal, researched and sourced, per the House principle ‘Research before publication.’