Our makers
Every piece on Craftsy Affairs names who made it. These are the 15 artisans, families, cooperatives and kitchens we work with.
Block printing, Blue Pottery
Bagru, Rajasthan · working since 1962
Twelve families who print with hand-carved teak blocks and dye with mud-resist, indigo and natural madder, a craft their ancestors brought to Bagru over 400 years ago.
“The cloth remembers every hand that touched it.”
Banarasi weaving
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh · working since 1948
Third-generation weavers working eight pit looms. One saree takes two weavers around three weeks.
Pattachitra, Ikat
Raghurajpur, Odisha · working since 1975
A heritage craft village near Puri where every home is a painting studio. Colours come from stones, shells and lamp soot.
Pashmina, Saffron
Pampore, Kashmir · working since 1955
A growers' cooperative hand-picking crocus stigmas at dawn each October.
Spices, Aranmula metal mirrors
Wayanad, Kerala · working since 2004
A self-help group of 18 women making small-batch pickles and spice blends from farm produce.
Terracotta, Kantha, Darjeeling tea
Panchmura, West Bengal · working since 1969
Potters shaping the famous Bankura horse by coiling and hand-modelling clay, then firing in open kilns.
Embroidery, Bandhani
Bhuj, Gujarat · working since 1991
Women embroiderers keeping Rabari mirror-work patterns alive, each motif carrying meaning for the family it was made for.
Terracotta, Kantha, Darjeeling tea
Darjeeling, West Bengal · working since 1932
A small estate hand-plucking first-flush leaves on slopes above 6,000 feet.
Cane, Muga silk, Honey
Kohima, Nagaland · working since 1988
Cane and bamboo weavers making baskets and storage with techniques passed within the village.
Block printing, Blue Pottery
Jaipur, Rajasthan · working since 1980
Quartz-based, clay-free pottery hand-painted in cobalt and fired at low temperature.
Spices, Aranmula metal mirrors
Mannar, Kerala · working since 1958
Bell-metal and brass casters making lamps by the lost-wax method, each mould broken after a single casting.
Block printing, Blue Pottery
Jaipur, Rajasthan · working since 1971
A family studio of enamellers and stone-setters working in the lanes of Jaipur's jewellers' bazaar.
Terracotta, Kantha, Darjeeling tea
Birbhum, West Bengal · working since 1999
Over forty women stitching kantha from recycled cotton, with income paid directly to each stitcher.
Pashmina, Saffron
Srinagar, Kashmir · working since 1940
Weavers and sozni embroiderers keeping the pashmina tradition alive in the old city.
Cane, Muga silk, Honey
Dimapur, Nagaland · working since 2009
Village beekeepers harvesting forest honey sustainably, twice a year.
