5 Haslis That Carry The Coromandel Shore
At the height of the Coromandel noon, everything reveals its truest form — light sharpens, gold deepens, and pearls glow with a quiet intensity. This collection captures that exact moment, where nature feels almost sculpted — clusters forming like coral, curves unfolding like wind-shaped vines. Each piece is an expression of that still, sunlit clarity — refined, luminous, and designed to feel less like jewellery, and more like something discovered.
The hasli — the open torque necklace — is one of the oldest and most enduring forms of Indian jewellery. It sits at the collarbone like a second neckline, framing the face and drawing the eye downward to whatever pendant it carries. The five pieces in this edit are the Coromandel collection's finest exploration of this form: five haslis, five pendants, five different ways of wearing a thousand years of coastal craft tradition.
1. Neela Tara Medallion Necklace — The Colourful One
Gold, Turquoise, Pearl, Onyx
Neela means blue. Tara means star. And this necklace has both qualities — the vivid, oceanic blue of the turquoise stones and the star-like radiance of pearl medallions arranged around them.
A gold link chain holds five distinct elements along its arc: two turquoise square stones set in gold, two large circular pearl-studded medallions, and at the centre, another turquoise stone flanked by hanging black onyx spheres. The composition reads like a coastline — blue and white and dark, the colours of water and shore and shadow at noon.
This is the only chain necklace in the edit and the most colourful — its combination of turquoise, pearl, and black onyx creating a palette that feels simultaneously coastal and regal. It can dress up the simplest outfit or add warmth and colour to an ethnic ensemble.
Perfect for: Festive occasions, beach styling, statement dressing, gifting for someone who loves colour and craft in equal measure.
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2. Bloom & Leaf Asymmetric Pallava Hasli — Nature, Caught Mid-Motion
₹8,950 | Gold, Pearl
The Pallava dynasty of South India — whose temples at Mahabalipuram stand metres from the Coromandel sea — was known for its naturalistic sculpture: figures caught in motion, flowers mid-bloom, leaves bending under an imagined breeze. The Bloom & Leaf Asymmetric Pallava Hasli carries that sensibility directly.
Handcrafted in recycled brass and finished with radiant 18K gold plating, minimal yet expressive, this open torque is finished with sculpted floral and leaf elements on either end. The asymmetry gives it a natural, almost growing quality — like a stem caught mid-motion. Designed to sit lightly on the neck, it brings a subtle narrative of form without overpowering the wearer.
The asymmetry is the key detail — one end carries a larger bloom, the other a smaller leaf, so the torque reads differently from every angle. Worn with the floral element forward, it draws attention to the collarbone. Worn asymmetrically, it becomes a piece of wearable sculpture. Either way, it is extraordinarily beautiful.
Perfect for: Contemporary ethnic styling, pairing with plain sarees or kurtas where the hasli becomes the entire accessory story, gifting for someone who appreciates craft as art.
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3. Pravala Kasu Hasli — Coral, Gold, and the Sea
Gold, Pearl
Pravala is the Sanskrit word for coral — and this hasli carries the organic, intricate quality of coral in its pendant design.
Three gold filigree discs cascade vertically from the torque's front — each one worked with delicate openwork wire in patterns that recall coral formations and sea-floor textures. Clustered pearl groups punctuate each disc, their luminosity contrasting with the warmth of the gold filigree around them. The overall pendant has significant presence and length, falling well below the collarbone and creating a vertical line that is both elegant and dramatic.
The filigree technique used here is among the most labour-intensive in Indian jewellery — each wire loop placed by hand, each disc a miniature architectural achievement. Wear this hasli and you're wearing the accumulated skill of an artisan who has spent years mastering a tradition that stretches back centuries.
Perfect for: Occasion and festive dressing, pairing with open necklines and draped fabrics, anyone who wants their jewellery to be a genuine conversation about craft.
4. Aurelia Crescent Torque Hasli — The Gold Moon at Your Throat
Gold, Pearl
Aurelia — golden, luminous, from the same root as aurora. And this hasli has exactly that quality: a warm, luminous gold that catches light the way the moon catches the sun's reflection on the water.
The Aurelia Crescent Torque Hasli features a large sculptural pendant of beaten and molded gold forms — a crescent-like arc of hand-hammered gold at its centre, surrounded by smaller organic gold shapes above and below, and a single pearl hanging from the lowest point. The forms are deliberately irregular, each surface worked by hand, each plane catching light differently from its neighbour.
This is the most abstract piece in the edit — the one that asks you to look at it slowly and find its logic, which is the logic of waves and dunes and the organic shapes that water and wind produce over time. Photographed at sunset against the Coromandel sea, it glows with a warmth that feels genuinely elemental.
Perfect for: Destination weddings, coastal event styling, anyone drawn to jewellery that is simultaneously ancient and completely contemporary.
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5. Rekha Jaal Hasli — The Grid of the Shore
Gold, Pearl
Rekha means line. Jaal means net or grid. Together — the net of lines — and this hasli delivers one of the most architecturally precise pendants in the entire collection.
Three square gold frames hang vertically from the torque, each one composed of multiple concentric gold squares that create a jaal — a grid — with a knotted gold accent at the centre of each. Between and around the squares, fine pearl wire creates the negative space, so that light and air pass through the pendant in exactly the same way they pass through a net cast into the sea.
The geometric precision of this pendant is extraordinary, especially considering it is made entirely by hand. Each square is built from wire, each knot placed individually, each layer of the concentric frame constructed separately and assembled with a patience that machine production simply cannot replicate.
This is the most architectural piece in the edit — the one for women who appreciate the rigour of geometric design applied with absolute craft confidence.
Perfect for: Statement dressing, pairing with minimal outfits where the pendant's architecture is the sole focal point, gifting for someone who values design intelligence as much as beauty.
The Hasli — A Form Worth Knowing
The hasli (also known as a torque, collar, or galsari) is one of India's oldest jewellery forms. Archaeological evidence places it in the Indus Valley Civilisation; it appears in temple sculpture across South India; it has been worn by queens and goddesses and ordinary women across millennia.
What makes it remarkable is its structural intelligence: the open-front torque sits at the collarbone without needing a clasp, held in place by the gentle pressure of metal against skin. The front opening creates a natural display space for whatever pendant the artisan chooses to hang from it — and in the Coromandel collection, those pendants are among the finest being made in India today.
Each of these five haslis is handcrafted in recycled brass with 18K gold plating. Each is made to order, crafted once, never recreated. Each is the Coromandel coast in miniature — its light, its materials, its centuries of craft tradition — worn around the neck like a second shore.
How to Wear the Edit
For the most colour: Neela Tara Medallion — the only chain piece, the most vibrant.
For understated botanical grace: Bloom & Leaf Asymmetric Hasli — let the asymmetry do the work.
For a deep craft statement: Pravala Kasu Hasli — filigree at its finest.
For warm sculptural presence: Aurelia Crescent — when you want gold to glow like the moon.
For geometric precision: Rekha Jaal — architecture you can wear.
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