Athangudi Archive
Lecture 04 / Material Cultures of South India / Open Studio
Chettinad · 1900 — 1950 · Hand-cast Cement
செம்மண்ணும் கண்ணாடியும் — மண்ணில் வளர்ந்த தளம்.

The ground
beneath the mansion.

How a village of seventy artisans poured oxide pigment onto plate glass and built the floors of the Nattukottai merchant houses — one tile at a time, never fired, never glazed.

A talk in three rooms: pigment, pattern, patron.
Plate № 014 8" chokkattan, oxblood field
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