Rare as it is these days for precious gold handswear to be made in pairs (except shankha-palas), when they are, the effect is spectacular on wearing.This broad choor is a study in disciplined craft...
After the Golap Bagh Ananta, the Gulbahar Hansuli, and the Golap Phul Pata Choor (from exactly six years ago) comes this variation of the rose vine in pronounced bas-relief that helps enunciate, in...
The story of Indra's concealment in a lotus, twice, and subsequently his garland of penance made entirely of lotuses picked from an earthly pond, lends itself to this rare Mantasha - Ratan Choor wh...
We’ve brought together flowers of all kinds, from different plac...
The Lokkho-Tara bala is eons old and not in the least old as well. Classic jewellery never ages ; with time they become timeless and the virtues they’re born with become intrinsic to their characte...
When you're designing for a fiercely disciplined young CA professional (she's with ITC Limited) whose leanings towards 'sabeki' goyna is reflected in her love for all things classic, and when you'r...
The double blossoms aren't graduated in this ornate cuff that's designed to match the Grinling Gendaphul Hansuli of December 2018 vintage because they needn't be — the choor doesn't taper.
Th...
The most valued minakari work of our country deservingly comes from Jaipur. And unbelievably beautiful as it may be, imagine such art on the back of ornaments the ‘right side’ of which have traditi...
Wear these lohas if you’re happily married or think you’re soon going to be happily married. Or if you’re happily divorced or separated or widowed. Or if you’re going to firmly remain single. Or li...
As reported in the Brighton Herald of 24th April, 1952 :
The Kili Josiyam Ring Incident.
A Tamil gentleman by the name of Bhagaba...
From my home to Freedom Park
is just that many miles of an epic
journey I make everyday to
<...
Zoom in. Enlarge it. Look closely at the valleys between the strands. What you'll find makes all the difference between a regular screw-pak bala and our this ruli in which precision naksha re...
Which Bengali doesn't fancy puti-maachh in Spring, though there are those who'll swear by the gravid little things through the rainy months of July to September, usually deep-fried. A year-round fa...
The right term for this kind of jewel used to be "pin-choor" because the chains would be fastened at the back to a regular hinge, one set to the 'pin' or 'screw pyench' and the other to the threade...
The end of yet another year is nigh and while contemplating the disappearance of time in a time of catastrophe, we must leave you, as a fitting finale to a flagitious year, an ornament not to remem...
Those hell bent on obliterating the past to build a future are fools. You don’t need to wipe out what has come before to create something, or anything, new. In fact, you can’t. The sum and substanc...
When commissioned to make a choor matched to an iconic necklace, all the elements of the latter may not be included in the handswear. There's a clear reasoning for this : while completing the parur...
Thirty years, almost. That’s how old the die is from which the distinct quadrilaterals of this kankan have been struck. In truth, the patterned iron punch from which the die is made must be much ol...
The Beloari choori reappears four years after we last showcased them to you, but in a new 'old' guise. In fact the set we'd posted in November 2017 was a wider version of the actual bangles tha...
"Ma Basant ayo sakhi
Sab ban amva boran lage, bolan lage koyaliya
Sab ragini shringar kar ayi, nayak ko man bas
karveko
Ramdas man bhayo re.
" Spring has com...
Murder, however regal it may be, has never been an inspiration for jewellery, at least not for the kind we make. That's not to say a royal hunt is a random act of slaughter; there surely is somethi...
Stolen from the archive of Victoria and Albert Museum this is actually a gajredar silver anklet from Maharashtra, dating from the early twentieth century. True, we have copied the design in toto, b...
We Bengalis are justifiably proud of our Darjeeling, even though she came to us only in 1935, and that too via Nepal, Sikkim and Bihar. In truth, its famous sobriquet, Queen of the Hills, does make...
Not all ornaments are made with a clear purpose ; and,in our case, most aren't ; except that they have to be of universal beauty and must hold within them a simple narrative, or at least embody an ...
Adapted from our ever-popular Addigai necklace, this grand armlet also doubles up as a choker. You'll recognise the zig-zag thokai pieces strung in a row using thick v-chains, only this time there ...
The common passion flower, twining its way in beautifully turned delicate filigree, with each of the chhela rakhiphool guarded by two large frosted leaves the midrib and veins of which are also chh...
Those who've been to Colombo and stayed at The Galle Face Hotel have been to Colombo. The rest have been to Colombo in the geographical sense, yes, but not in the spirit of its enchanting history.<...
Every bit a jewel that might have been made in 1930s Calcutta and quite astonishing in its likeness to the design on page 74 of the M.B.Sirkar catalogue dating from almost ninety years ago, this re...
If there is such a thing as responsible romanticism or functional beauty or, for that matter, ecstatic elegance, it's likely y...
guinea gold, of an enchanting plant
whose fragrant white flowers perfume
the Bengal monsoon. The pearls
represent the madhumanjari and a
sing...
A slice of the rich, variegated landscape of Bengal in early winter finds its place in an interpretative way in this charming handcrafted guinea-gold bala where the half-naksha half-plain idiom is ...