Preservation · 8 min read
Rescuing Silver Filigree
In the lanes of Cuttack, a handful of families are keeping an intricate 500-year-old craft alive.
Tarakasi — the Odiya word for filigree — once defined the wedding jewellery of eastern India. A single earring can take a master two weeks to draw, twist, and solder.
Younger generations have largely moved on. The Mahapatra family in Naya Sadak is one of the last to teach the craft to their daughters as well as their sons.
Our seller, Silver Lineage, works directly with three Cuttack workshops to commission collections that pay the artisans a living wage and route royalties back to the master craftspeople.
