Maandanas are the decorative folk designs adoring the walls and floors of courtyards in rural homes. Rajasthan boats of an enduring and distinctive tradition in Maandanas. It was considered inauspicious to leave the inner courtyard bare and unadorned after its floor had been plastered with mud or cow dung. Vivid Maandanas fitted its emptiness and became suggestive of plenitude.

The art of making Maandanas is a traditional accomplishment of women in Rajasthan. They have beautified domestic spaces by transforming familiar geometric shapes and figure into a poetry of design. On festivals like Deepawali, Holi and Gangaur and joys occasions like marriages and childbirth Maandanas decorate floors and walls. Popular motifs are those of parrots. Peacocks, animal, flowers. Images and footprints of deities, the swastika and others. These are created mainly with ocher and white chalk powder.

Maandanas are a unique feature of folk are in Rajasthan combining tradition and versatility.