Around the acclaimed and novel artistic forms of West Bengal, the scroll painting holds an unique position. Ubiquitously regarded as Pat Chitra in the state, it is truly an extremely remarkable manifestation of painting, exceptionally universal and folk in nature. The experts of this art are regarded as
Patidars in the state. Patidars advance their specialty in an extremely interesting manner. They wander around from village to village with their scroll works of art, sing melodies and move to portray the subject of their work of art. The topic of parchment painted creations might change from religion to exercises of every day life.
For making the parchment canvas, a thick material is treated with cow dung and lac. The layouts of the figures to be outlined are drawn on the material, with light dark and commonly acquired red color. Vegetable colors are then filled inside the layouts, adding brilliance and life span to the painting. It is due to the utilization of regularly determined shades that the parchment artistic creations look as brilliant and new as another painting, even 50-60 years later. The length of the parchment works of art fluctuates between 4 and 50 feet. In any case, a normal Pat Chitra is something like 15 feet long.
