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Kantamma Amma's Muggu Art: Traditional Skill Adorns Mud House Threshold
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News18•04-10-2026, 14:31
Kantamma Amma's Muggu Art: Traditional Skill Adorns Mud House Threshold
- •In rural India, the unique fragrance of simplicity and tradition still permeates, despite modern concrete structures.
- •Kantamma Amma meticulously decorates her mud house's threshold (otla) with traditional Muggu designs using lime and rice flour.
- •She uses a special perforated roller tool to create straight and beautiful white stripes.
- •This art reflects the aesthetic sense of rural women and shows how traditional folk art can be preserved with simple tools.
- •The scene conveys a deep social message to respect one's roots, culture, and the hard work of earlier days.
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Kantamma Amma meticulously decorates traditional designs on the threshold of her mud house using lime and rice flour, known as Muggu, along with rangoli powder.
She uses a special perforated roller tool that, when filled with rangoli powder and rolled on the ground, automatically creates straight and beautiful white stripes.
The threshold and otla serve as a center for social interaction and community bonding, where children play in the cool shade and elders gather to share their joys and sorrows.
