Mathura Sanjhi is a ritual craft in which paper stencils of scenes from Lord Krishna’s life are cut freehand using scissors or a blade. The delicate sanji is often just held together by thin strands of paper. The stencils are used to create rangolis, powder transfers, on the ground and on water. These days the craftsmen are applying their skills to cut tiny bindis, and secular images for tourists. Sanjhis are originally image of Sanji Devi made in relief on mud wall using fresh flowers, colored stones. foil and mirrors. Sanjhis are still made throughout the plains of North India. Mathura’s Sanjhis however, have become delicate rangoli stencils depicting Krishna. If the Sanjhi is a Multicolored rangoli, the main design is divided into a number of subsidiary Chaskas, cotouts. The art has been hereditary and the craftsmen live near the Krishna Temple in Mathura. “Production: Mathura: Kanska Bazaar and Shri Madan Mohanji’s Temple.