Marble Jhula
SHILA — CUT 04

Marble Jhula

A swing seat carved from a single slab of beige Makrana marble, hung from hand-forged brass chains. The edges are rounded by hand until the stone reads soft. Suspends from a ceiling beam — a verandah piece, an afternoon piece.

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Material
Makrana marble (Rajasthan), hand-forged brass chain
Origin
Workshop in Makrana, Rajasthan
Lead time
10–12 weeks from confirmation

Dimensions

LGT
120 cm
WDT
55 cm
HGT
8 cm
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The Story

The jhula is the verandah's clock — every Indian childhood remembers the sound of one moving overhead in the heat of an afternoon. We carved this one from Makrana marble, the same quarry the Taj Mahal was built from in the seventeenth century, and rounded the edges by hand until the stone forgot it was stone. The brass chains were forged link by link in the old way. Hung from a ceiling beam, it asks the house to slow to its arc. Built for the hour after lunch when a grandmother sits down with a child and neither of them speaks.

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