Haridas Das standing in a metal workshop in a white shirt and grey shorts, hands clasped, facing the camera, finished xorai on the earth floor beside him and a sheet of yellow metal leaning on the wall behind.
Place
Sarthebari, Barpeta, Assam
Makes
Xorai
Honours
Assam Gaurav, 2024, Government of Assam
On this site
See the pieces

In Haridas Das's own words

I used to come back from school and learn how to make Xorai.

Haridas Das seated cross-legged on the workshop floor in glasses and a white shirt, hammering a rounded metal dome held over an iron stake, the polished lid and spire of a finished xorai in sharp focus in front of him.

Pieces by Haridas Das

The xorai with its lid on, against white: a spired lid on a domed cover over the tray, a turned stem with collars and a flared foot, all in burnished brass.

Sarthebari Xorai

₹12,900

How a xorai is made