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Quills & Spills
For this wedding season, we are looking at temple sets in German silver
The name can be quite deceptive at first, and as much
as you would imagine coming across only paper quilled jewellery at Quills and Spills, you are in for a pleasant surprise. Twenty six-year-old Kavitha Govindarajan’s passion led her to quilling paper and using it to make her own jewellery. Slowly came experiments with silk thread and beaded jewellery but a hiatus put a stop to her passion. It was only two years ago that she decided to start a handmade jewellery retail portal. The brand specialises in handcrafted German silver jewellery made from copper and brass (unlike the common ironbased ones) and has on offer a host of other items including traditional imitation jewellery, statement earrings, kundan jewellery, salt stone jewellery and much more. “My role changed from creator to curator and I now source from craftsmen around the country—Jaipur, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu,” says Govindarajan, who also occasionally designs the pieces. Her work’s selling point is the affordable pricing and the durability of the pieces. “For the forthcoming wedding season, we are looking at temple sets made in German silver. Brides can mix and match the long and short haarams instead of set ones,” she says. Look out for their line of Afghan coloured glass jewellery next month. AT quillsandspills.in PRICE Rs 400 onwards