About Chettinad Athangudi Tiles
Athangudi tiles are handmade cement floor tiles cast on glass and ground in oxide colours — never fired — in the village of Athangudi in Tamil Nadu. From 1900 to 1950 they paved the grand halls of Chettiar merchant mansions, their glossy geometric-floral patterns reading true against dark Burma-teak pillars and limewashed walls.
This design system rebuilds that interior in pixels: a warm teak-brown ground chosen so the oxide pigments — oxblood, ochre, mustard, teal, green — glow exactly as they do underfoot. Saturated earth tones, square tile-grid modules, and bordered medallion fields carry the craft to screen.
- Origin
- South Asia — Athangudi village, Chettinad, Tamil Nadu, India
- Era
- 1900–1950 (Chettiar mansion-building boom)
- Key figures
- Nattukottai Chettiar merchant-banker patrons · Anonymous Athangudi tile artisans
- Movements
- Vernacular Chettinad craft · Oxide-pigment cement-tile tradition · Burma-teak and limewash interiors
Chettinad Athangudi Tiles design spec
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