Rajju
The piece
Rajju is the cord that measured an altar; the Shulba texts use it as another name for the measure itself. Baudhayana set down what a cord stretched along a diagonal can do: it makes as much as the two sides make separately. Rajju lays that cord corner to corner across undyed wool, knotted into the pile as a twisted band, a peg at each end and the faint grid it measured left behind. Shown as a rendering. Woven to order in Jaipur.
- Materials
- Hand-spun New Zealand wool with mulberry silk accents, cotton warp
- Dimensions
- Made to order in any size. Shown at 8 × 10 ft (about 2.4 × 3 m)
- Density
- 6 to 14 knots per inch
- Lead Time
- 6 to 10 months on the loom
- Origin
- Jaipur, Rajasthan
