Padmawathi Jewllary Works

Padmawathi Jewllary Works is in Warangal, right at Papaiahpet Chamman. The house number is 12-4-5. It is a small workshop where we do the actual making of the jewelry. It’s a traditional kind of place. We have small benches and specialized tools that have been around for a long time. There is usually a small flame going for the soldering and the smell of metal being heated up. We aren't like those big jewelry stores with security guards and air conditioning. Here, you can see the soot on the walls and the goldsmiths hunched over their work. We spend hours looking through magnifying glasses to get the tiny details right on a ring or a chain. Papaiahpet is a lively area and we are right in the middle of that local energy. People bring us their old gold to be melted down or fixed. It is a very honest way to earn a living. We don't do much talking; we just focus on the craft. The floor is swept every day to make sure no tiny bits of metal are lost. It is a slow process to make something by hand, but that is just how we do it here. We have been in this part of Warangal for a long time and the locals know exactly where to find us. It's just a small shop doing its thing every day.