Cethora

The Crafts

Four regions.
Five centuries of hand work.

Every CETHORA piece begins in one of four places. A village in Telangana where threads are dyed before they become cloth. A fort town in Karnataka where zinc is blackened by a specific soil that exists nowhere else. A temple town in Andhra Pradesh where cloth is drawn on with bamboo pens. An artisan school in West Bengal where leather is tanned with bark.

This page is the map. Follow any region to meet the artisan behind the piece.

Pochampally ikat weaving — handwoven silk on a traditional pit loom. Sustainable luxury fashion by Indian artisans.

Pochampally, Telangana

Ikat Silk Weaving

Where every thread is dyed before it becomes a pattern. The mathematics of silk.

Enter the Region →
Bidri metalwork detail — silver-inlaid blackened zinc hardware by a Bidar master craftsman.

Bidar, Karnataka

Bidri Metalwork

Zinc and silver, blackened by the soil of a single fort. A craft that cannot be moved.

Enter the Region →
Kalamkari hand-drawing on silk with a bamboo pen in Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh.

Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh

Kalamkari Hand-Drawing

Every line is drawn with a bamboo pen dipped in fermented iron. A conversation between maker and cloth.

Enter the Region →
Vegetable-tanned leather being hand-burnished in a Shantiniketan workshop, West Bengal.

Shantiniketan, West Bengal

Vegetable-Tanned Leather

Leather the way it was finished before speed mattered. Tanned with bark, burnished by hand.

Enter the Region →