Reference

Library

A growing reference for every Indian jewellery tradition. Histories, techniques, regions, and the contemporary designers still working in them.

• 1500–today · North & Deccan

  Kundan: a history from Jaipur to Hyderabad

  The setting that traveled from a Mughal court to a Hyderabadi nawab’s atelier.

• 1700–today · Pratapgarh, Rajasthan

  Thewa: gold on glass

  A single town has practiced this for three hundred years. Eleven families still do.

• 1100–today · Tamil Nadu, Karnataka

  Temple jewellery of the south

  Designed for deities, adopted by Bharatanatyam dancers, now reinterpreted weekly.