The grain and resistance of leather are met by hands trained through repetition and experience, while design takes shape around these material realities. What emerges is not simply an object made in a place, but an object whose identity is formed through an ongoing encounter between geography, material and human knowledge.
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Made In Pondicherry
An object can cross the world and still carry the place that made it, the material, the gestures, the slow rhythms held inside its form. Pondicherry has done this for...
Made In Pondicherry
An object can cross the world and still carry the place that made it, the material, the gestures, the slow rhythms held inside its form. Pondicherry has done this for...
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Vegetable Tanned Leather
The earliest trace of tanned hide on this subcontinent comes from Mehrgarh, where tanning was already a craft in practice by around 5500 BCE (Defence Journal, 2022). By the time...
Vegetable Tanned Leather
The earliest trace of tanned hide on this subcontinent comes from Mehrgarh, where tanning was already a craft in practice by around 5500 BCE (Defence Journal, 2022). By the time...
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Our Artisans
Leatherwork in Pondicherry runs in families, not resumes. Across pockets of the region, from Shanmukhapuram and Muthialpet to Villianur and the villages towards Auroville, workshops often share space with family...
Our Artisans
Leatherwork in Pondicherry runs in families, not resumes. Across pockets of the region, from Shanmukhapuram and Muthialpet to Villianur and the villages towards Auroville, workshops often share space with family...
