Chathuram Wooden Cutting Board

  Wood Craft: We use good quality Mango wood and teak to make the products. Traditional carpenters use hand operated tools to carve the products out of large wood logs. It is hand finished to make it smooth

Ranthal Bamboo Lamp Shade

Woven by our master bamboo weaver, who likes to play with colours on this pineapple inspired weaving This lamp shade will be a great decorative piece to light up your outdoor or indoor spaces Cutting bamboo from forest to formation of  thin strips, is a laborious process going beyond a day. These strips are then dyed to get the coloured strips for designs. These strips are then woven by hand applying the weavers' skills to form the decorative pieces.

Saantham Picnic Mat

A comfortable mat handcrafted by Bindu, Sindhu, Beena and Sheeja, the weavers of Killimangalam. A dash of turmeric sprinkled with beetle nut leaves and bordered with blue. Here is a mat you can have for a relaxing outing.   Story of Cora Grass and Mat weaving: Cora Grass is found along river banks and in marshy lands. It can grow up to a height of two meters. Family members of mat weavers collect these cora grass and bring it for processing. They cut each grass stem into four strands and remove the soft material at the centre. Before further processing, the grass is dried under the sun, till it develops a beige colour naturally. The grass is then dyed using different colouring materials and processes to match artists imagination. Sometimes, the colouring process takes days, depending on the shade of colour desired. The handcrafted mats are woven using hand operated looms. A set of  white yarns as the warp (length) and thin strands of cora grass as weft (width), are woven on a loom hand-operated by weavers. These looms do not use electricity. Human handling lends the mat a unique feel and more value. The resultant mat is softer, more durable and much more comfortable than machine-made mats. The cora grass strands are compacted by hand by the weavers, ensuring sturdiness to the mat. The art of hand weaving is labour intensive and takes a longer time. But, the beauty and quality it adds to the mat is priceless. Choosing handwoven mats  supports the rich weaving heritage of Killimangalam and lets the weavers carry on the precious art-form to the future generations as well.