{"title":"Sawaii Pottery - Black Terracotta Decor","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mriga collection - mriga (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eमृग\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e), Sanskrit for the wild creatures of the forest, brings the black terracotta tradition of Sawaii into contemporary homes. Each piece is hand-etched using the signature loop, dot, and arc vocabulary of the craft.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThese are objects made for coffee tables, bookshelves, and the kind of homes where things are chosen for what they carry, not just what they look like. Set a fish pair on a stack of books. Let the tiger sit at the end of a console. Place the Pakshi Uruli at the centre of a table and watch what it does to a room. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNo two pieces are identical. Each surface is a record of the hands and tools that made it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\" style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe clay has been speaking for centuries. We simply moved the conversation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"pakshi-uruli-black-terracotta-bowl-sawaii-pottery","title":"Pakshi Uruli - Black Terracotta Bird-Goddess Bowl","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eA wide-mouthed offering bowl in black terracotta, flanked by a hand-modelled peacock in full display with dotwork ornamentation. Made by Sawaii potters in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan - a craft tradition shaped over generations in the red-earth kilns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe bowl rests on three small feet and is stable on any surface. The inner bowl is smooth and open. Every etched mark - the peacock's feathers, the geometric borders is pressed individually by hand into unfired clay using a thin wooden tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe black finish comes from a smoke-firing process using rice husk, which carbonises the clay surface. No dye. No coating. The colour lives in the earth itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shop Handmade Tales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47960381030574,"sku":"DEC-SAW-BWL-PUL-OS","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0549\/6625\/5790\/files\/DSC_6275.jpg?v=1780920116"},{"product_id":"ranthambore-tiger-black-terracotta-sawaii-pottery","title":"The Ranthambore Tiger - Black Terracotta Figurine","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eThe Ranthambore Tiger is the defining form of the Sawaii pottery tradition - a seated, roaring tiger hand-built and hand-etched in black terracotta, from the same red laterite earth as Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Sawai Madhopur, Rajasthan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003eEvery surface of this piece is etched by hand using a comb tool, producing the arc-and-wave pattern that moves continuously across the body from snout to tail. The effect makes the tiger look like it is still in motion even at rest. The head is modelled separately, joined before firing, then the entire piece is smoke-fired in rice husk for the deep, natural black finish that is the hallmark of Sawaii work. No dye. No coating. The colour lives in the earth itself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shop Handmade Tales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47960545099950,"sku":"DEC-SAW-FIG-RTG-OS","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0549\/6625\/5790\/files\/DSC_6256.jpg?v=1780930418"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0549\/6625\/5790\/collections\/DSC_6260-2.jpg?v=1780904961","url":"https:\/\/shophandmadetales.com\/collections\/mriga-black-terracotta-decor-sawaii-pottery-handmade-tales.oembed","provider":"The Handmade Tales","version":"1.0","type":"link"}