Jali

A jali is a perforated stone or latticed screen, with ornamental patterns that draw on the compositional rhythms of calligraphy and geometry. This book explores the delicate beauty of more than two hundred jalis across India, from seventeenth-century examples in Agra to those designed by global contemporary artists influenced by historical styles. The expansive volume covers the temple-inspired designs of the Gujarat Sultanate, imperial symbolism and Sufi allusions in Mughal jalis, the innovations and adaptations of jalis across Rajasthan and central India and, further south, calligraphy in pierced stone in the Deccan.