Suvarnam

Birth, death, rite of passage … gold was integral to every key moment of life in Kerala, and traditional goldsmiths who fashioned beautiful ornaments to mark these moments occupied the most exalted position among all craftsmen. The act of making an ornament was deeply imbued with mythology, poetry, ethics, aesthetics, and a close relationship between the metal, the craftsman, and society. In more recent times gold plays a different, and far more ostentatious, role....