This project was undertaken together with the cutlery as part of a 4 week summer internship at Khamir, Kutch, Gujarat along with the artisans of Reha village.

 

Knife making at Reha is celebrated as an essential art of Kutch . The thought was to use this identity and come up with alternate products that fit in the semiotics of knife and would use the same methods of sand casting/forging and/finishing which were practiced at Reha. 

A bookmark blade that marks and separates the “read” and ”to be read” pages . When made in brass makes the product very special and personal. A dagger that would incorporate leather and knitting in it and behave as a collective of all art forms of kutch and a memoir of any visit made to the place. The third one as a book binder or say a locking system closely relating the product to the adjectives of safety and security associated with knives.