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Likhawat – Indian Calligraphy on sarees, stoles, walls and anything you can imagine. Customised art.

Likhawat by Shipra Dutta

Where words become art

Customized calligraphy
Handcrafted art
International workshops

A New Delhi heritage studio creating hand-calligraphed wall art, devotional editions, personalized gifts, textile pieces, live brand work and learning experiences with a slow, human hand.

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Browse Likhawat by category

Start with the object you want to live with or gift. Each category is shaped around surface, occasion, script, size and customization possibilities.

No service as usual

Text, surface and occasion are designed together

Likhawat works across paper, walls, fabric, stone, metal, books, leather, gifts and live personalization. The brief may begin with a mantra, poem, name, invitation, institutional project or workshop idea; the final form is chosen for the feeling the words need to carry.

Live calligraphy personalization at a Chanel event
Shipra Dutta, founder of Likhawat
Shipra Dutta

“All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world; I am always weaving it because it was once broken.”

Anais Nin, Winter 1942

Made by hand, seen widely

From intimate gifts to public cultural work

The homepage gallery brings together the studio view, press, government projects, luxury events, wedding commissions, devotional editions, textile art and shop-ready pieces.

Begin with the words

Choose a piece, commission one, or learn the hand

Professional and legal-client commissions

For law firms, chambers and professional offices, Likhawat can create hand-lettered certificates, client gifts, chamber display pieces, event invitations, name cards and presentation scrolls.

Send only a short brief first. Please do not share confidential case papers or sensitive client data through open forms or checkout notes; we can confirm the right channel if protected files are needed.