Blue Hippie Mandala Tapestry — Indian Peacock Wall Hanging
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Description
The blue hippie mandala tapestry is the festival piece — vibrant, celebratory, deeply rooted in the bohemian aesthetic that first brought Indian mandala wall art into Western consciousness in the 1960s and 1970s, and has never left. The peacock blue palette gives this piece its distinctive character: rich, saturated, spiritually significant in the Indian tradition where the peacock is associated with beauty, dignity, protection, and culturally resonant as the defining colour of boho festival aesthetics worldwide.
The peacock in Indian tradition
The peacock (mayura) is India’s national bird and one of its most sacred animals. In Hindu tradition, the peacock is associated with Kartikeya (also known as Murugan or Skanda), the symbol of war and victory, who rides a peacock as his mount. In the Vaishnava tradition, Krishna wears peacock feathers in his crown — a symbol of grace, beauty, and the capacity to transmute even the most ordinary situation into something luminous. The peacock’s iridescent feathers, which contain all colours simultaneously, also connect it to the rainbow — making it an appropriate symbol for the hippie tradition that celebrates the spectrum of human experience.
The hippie tradition and Indian textiles
The hippie movement of the 1960s and 1970s brought Indian mandala art, block-printed textiles, and Sanskrit symbolism into Western popular culture through the “Hippie Trail” — the overland route from Europe through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India that thousands of young Westerners travelled in search of spiritual experience and alternative aesthetics. The Indian mandala tapestry became one of the defining objects of the hippie home: affordable, beautiful, spiritually resonant, and portable. This blue hippie mandala tapestry carries that lineage — it is the direct descendant of those original imports, updated for contemporary quality and availability.
Specifications
- Size :210*148cm
- Item: Wall Hanging / Tapestry / Bed Sheet
- Design: Totally Screen Printed On Cotton Fabric. Screen Printed Design.
- Fabric (Material): Polyester
- Color: Blue (As seen in Pictures)
- Technique: Handmade
- Hanging: See our tapestry hanging guide →
What is a hippie tapestry?
A hippie tapestry is a textile wall hanging in the aesthetic tradition established by the 1960s–70s counterculture movement — characterised by rich, saturated colour, Indian or global folk art designs, mandala or sacred geometry patterns, and a general ethos of beauty, freedom, and spiritual openness. Indian mandala tapestries became definitive hippie objects through the Hippie Trail, where Western travellers discovered Indian textile art and brought it back to Europe and America. The hippie tapestry tradition has continued and evolved through boho, festival, and New Age aesthetics, remaining a consistent expression of the impulse to fill living spaces with meaningful, beautiful, globally-inspired art.
See also: All Mandala Tapestries → · Rainbow Elephant Tapestry →
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Lisa –
A little bit transparant but still good material. Looks very good!
Windy –
great purchase. I love it