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Collections

Seven hundred and fifty-one pieces from three hundred and eleven makers. Every listing is written by the person who made the thing, which is why they read like people rather than catalogues.

Block-printed textiles

Hand-carved teak blocks, natural dyes, printed a metre at a time in Bagru and Sanganer. Colour shifts between runs — that is the dye, not a fault.

Indigo dabu bedcover

Meena Chhipa · Bagru

₹4,800 · double

Madder stripe running metre

Rafiq Textiles · Sanganer

₹690 · per metre

Ajrakh scarf, pomegranate

Sufiya Khatri · Bhuj

₹2,150

Wheel-thrown ceramics

Stoneware and terracotta fired in small batches. Every glaze is mixed in the studio it came from, so no two firings match exactly.

Ash-glaze dinner plate

Kumbh Studio · Auroville

₹1,250 · each

Terracotta water jug, 2L

Basheer Potters · Manipur

₹1,900

Celadon tea set, six cups

Ila Ceramics · Pondicherry

₹6,400 · set

Original prints

Linocut, screenprint and etching — signed, numbered, and never editioned past fifty. When an edition closes it does not reopen.

Monsoon Rooftops, linocut

Anand Rao · Kochi

₹3,200 · ed. 40

Night Bus, two-colour screenprint

Press Nineteen · Bengaluru

₹2,600 · ed. 25

Field Notes IV, etching

Devika Sen · Santiniketan

₹5,100 · ed. 15

Silver & brass

Cast, forged and set by hand. Repairs and resizing are done by the same maker, for as long as they are working.

Hammered brass bowl, 7in

Thatheras of Jandiala · Punjab

₹2,300

Silver bead necklace

Lakha Rabari · Kutch

₹7,900

Dhokra oil lamp

Bastar Metalworks · Chhattisgarh

₹3,450

Buying

Nothing is sold through this site yet — the bazaar is monthly and in person. Write to a maker directly, or come to Shahpur Jat on the first weekend and pick the piece up yourself.

When and where Meet the makers