Mudda | Floor seat
Category: Aasan
Location: Murtazabad (Sadaugarhi), Palwal, Haryana
Cultural region: Mewat
Materials: Grass
Grass craft technique: Coiling, Joinery
Source: DICRC, India and SADACC, UK
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.