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A mudda is used by the women to sit while cooking food on a chulha (hearth) and grinding grains in a chakki (hand mill grinder). Coir rope is tied around the mudda starting from the centre, to tightly hold the rice stalks in place and to prevent them from splitting.
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- Title: Mudda (Floor seat)
- Location: Murtazabad (Sadaugarhi), Palwal, Haryana
- Type: Aasan (Seating)
- Contributor: Mansi S Rao, Rishav Jain, Ben Cartwright and Radha Devpura
- Rights: Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre, CEPT University and South Asian Decorative Arts and Crafts Collection (SADACC) Trust
- Medium: Grass
- Region: Mewat
- Grass Craft Technique: Coiling, Joinery
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