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Sangamachi (Low chair)
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University
Ahmedabad, India
Traditionally sangamachi has a low seat.Its structural and ornamental members are made of turned wood and coated with red lacquer. Customarily a sangamachi was used by the oldest woman in a family.
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- Title: Sangamachi (Low chair)
- Location: Nageshri, Amreli, Gujarat
- Type: Aasan (Seating)
- Contributor: Mitraja Bais, Jay Thakkar, Samrudha Dixit, Ben Cartwright and Mansi S Rao
- Rights: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University and South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection (SADACC) Trust
- Medium: Wood, Cotton (Strap)
- Wood Craft Technique: Carving, Joinery, Lacquering, Turning
- Region: Saurashtra
- Cotton Strap Technique: Weaving
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