43 Madhubani Border Designs

One of the best ways to practice Madhubani is to draw its designs on small pieces of handmade paper. That's what I was doing during the weekend as a relaxing time-pass. All of them are copied from Madhubani works I found on the Internet and although I drew them, their copyright doesn't belong to me. If you are the creator of one of these designs and would like to be given credit to, please contact and I will give the necessary credit.

ABOUT THESE DRAWINGS

Materials used: permanent marker (black), handmade paper, pencils and crayons. The colors are unchanged, the tone might vary, the design proportions may also vary.

BASIC DESIGNS:

Commonly, only lines are used as a border, usually only 3-4 lines.

Single color border, usually crimson red or orange or maroon.

Another popular design for border is just these little "mounts".

This checked black and white chess board design has been used by the famous Baua Devi

TRIANGLE DESIGNS:

The simplest triangle design can be used for black and white drawings.

Red,orange and black lined triangle design can suit for any drawing that has triangle patterns.

Black and white triangle design.

Blue, red and triple line boarder.

Simple triangle design with some line work underneath, used to paint on a sari.

Lovely lotus and lined triangle design.

Pretty interesting earthly triangle design from a tattoo work.

WAVY DESIGNS:

Another simple design, often used by Baua Devi.

Interesting black from sides and lined in the middle design from a black and white tattoo work.

Modern looking Madhubani border.

Another wavy boarder design of green, yellow and pink.

FLOWER DESIGNS:

Cute and flowing flower boarder.

Traditional lotus and mount boarder.

The interesting, complicated looking (but easy) petal design. (Originally orange)

Flower design from a photo of a outside wall painting in a village.

Pretty complicated looking black background flower and triangle double boarder design.

Simple petals and loops black and white design.

Upside down lotus flower and black triangle double boarder design.

LEAF DESIGNS:

Very addictive and cute yellow leaf design.

Classic and refined leaf design.

Orange leaves in the stripy background - a lovely traditional Madhubani design.

Loads of line work with red leaf design.

There is something about blue and red with the black extra border design.

Common red leaves in the stripy black background design.

Peacock feather like leaf red design.

Modest petals black and white design.

VERTICAL DESIGNS:

Red and black, crossed simple design.

Yet to be  colored border design.

If your painting's figure is carrying a jug of water, this will be a perfect boarder design.

Simple vertical design for an overly detailed work.

This is from a highly complicated black and white Madhubani work that could be sold for 10.000 rs.

CIRCLE DESIGNS:

Tribal looking, ball/fish-eye border design.

A very sophisticated circle design with the detail of leaf.

An interesting border from a Madhubani sketch (circles are used instead of a double line).

Another circles, ovals and mounts triple border design.

RHOMBUS DESIGNS:

A black and white design.

Simple and time consuming rhombus, lines and triangles triple boarder designs.

Rhombus and circles. From a complicated time consuming black and white work.

Red rhombus and blue and white boarder.