Gli artigiani · Makers

37 towns, one standard.

We buy directly from workshops in India’s craft clusters. Tap a town to shop its work.

Moradabad

Brass & metalware
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Sand-cast and spun brass, hand-chased and polished. The Peetal Nagri has supplied the world's homes for over a century.

28.83° N, 78.78° E

Jaipur

Blue pottery, block print & kilims
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Quartz-paste blue pottery, block-printed cotton and flatweave rugs from the Pink City's workshops.

26.91° N, 75.79° E

Bagru

Dabu & natural-dye printing
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Mud-resist dabu and indigo printing from carved teak blocks, cured in the Rajasthan sun.

26.81° N, 75.54° E

Sanganer

Hand block printing
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Fine floral block prints on cotton, washed in the Saraswati's soft water.

26.82° N, 75.79° E

Bhadohi

Hand-knotted rugs
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India's carpet belt. Rugs knotted at 80 knots per square inch, then washed by hand.

25.39° N, 82.57° E

Panipat

Dhurries & flatweaves
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Panja-loom dhurries and braided jute, woven in one of the world's great textile-recycling towns.

29.39° N, 76.97° E

Khurja

Glazed ceramics
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Stoneware and glazes fired in gas kilns, finished for daily use.

28.25° N, 77.85° E

Saharanpur

Carved woodwork
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Sheesham and mango wood carved with jaali patterns from a 400-year tradition.

29.96° N, 77.55° E

Channapatna

Lacquered wood
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Turned ivory-wood coloured with vegetable lacquer, child-safe and naturally bright.

12.65° N, 77.21° E

Kannauj

Attar & scent
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Copper-still deg-bhapka distillation. Mitti attar captures first rain on baked earth.

27.06° N, 79.92° E

Firozabad

Mouth-blown glass
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India's glass city, where furnaces have run since the Mughal era.

27.15° N, 78.39° E

Bhuj

Kala cotton weaving
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Pit-loom weaving with rain-fed indigenous kala cotton.

23.24° N, 69.67° E

Ajrakhpur

Ajrakh printing
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Sixteen-step resist printing with madder and indigo, washed in the river.

23.21° N, 69.73° E

Bolpur

Kantha embroidery
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Running-stitch kantha by women's collectives near Santiniketan.

23.67° N, 87.70° E

Lucknow

Chikankari
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White-on-white shadow embroidery, stitched by hand over weeks.

26.85° N, 80.95° E

Pochampally

Ikat weaving
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Tie-dyed warp and weft, geometric and exact, from Telangana's GI-tagged looms.

17.35° N, 78.82° E

Kullu

Wool weaving
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Handloom wool with geometric borders from the Himalayan valley.

31.96° N, 77.11° E

Srinagar

Papier-mâché & silk rugs
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Kashmiri papier-mâché painted with squirrel-hair brushes, and fine silk carpets.

34.08° N, 74.80° E

Udaipur

Bone inlay & thikri
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Bone and mother-of-pearl inlay on wood, and mirror-mosaic thikri work.

24.59° N, 73.71° E

Agra

Marble inlay
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Pietra dura inlay in white marble, the craft of the Taj Mahal's artisans.

27.18° N, 78.01° E

Nathdwara

Pichwai painting
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Devotional cloth paintings of lotus ponds and cows, made around the Shrinathji temple.

24.93° N, 73.82° E

Madhubani

Madhubani painting
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Fine-line Mithila painting with natural pigments and nib pens.

26.35° N, 86.07° E

Patangarh

Gond art
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Dot-and-dash Gond painting of trees, birds and forest stories.

22.80° N, 81.10° E

Dahanu

Warli painting
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Rice-paste figures of harvest and dance from Maharashtra's Warli community.

19.97° N, 72.73° E

Srikalahasti

Kalamkari
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Pen-drawn kalamkari with natural dyes from Andhra Pradesh.

13.75° N, 79.70° E

Thanjavur

Tanjore painting
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Gesso relief and 22-carat gold-foil painting from the Chola heartland.

10.79° N, 79.14° E

Bhilwara

Phad painting
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Scroll paintings that once travelled with storytellers across Rajasthan.

25.35° N, 74.63° E

Bastar

Dhokra metal casting
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Lost-wax bell-metal casting, a 4,000-year-old technique.

19.07° N, 82.03° E

Bidar

Bidriware
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Blackened zinc-copper alloy inlaid with pure silver.

17.91° N, 77.52° E

Nizamabad

Black pottery
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Smoke-fired black clay etched and inlaid with silver-toned lines.

26.05° N, 83.00° E

Barpeta

Cane & bamboo
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Assam cane and bamboo woven into baskets, lamps and furniture.

26.32° N, 91.00° E

Balakati

Kansa bell metal
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Hand-beaten kansa, the traditional Odisha alloy for eating and drinking.

20.21° N, 85.86° E

Kutch

Terracotta, bells & toran
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Copper bells, mirror-work torans and terracotta from the Rann villages.

23.73° N, 69.86° E

Machilipatnam

Block kalamkari
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Hand-block kalamkari in rich reds and indigos.

16.19° N, 81.14° E

Jodhpur

Furniture & woodwork
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Solid sheesham and reclaimed-wood furniture from the Blue City.

26.24° N, 73.02° E

Mysuru

Incense & sandalwood
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Hand-rolled agarbatti and dhoop in the city of sandalwood.

12.30° N, 76.64° E

Kolkata

Jute weaving
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Golden jute woven into mats and baskets.

22.57° N, 88.36° E