A place with rich variety with diversity. We are snugger to our grassroots. India’s handicrafts add a legacy to the beautiful culture that it has. Fewer countries have now left that value or paid heed to the hand-crafted creations, and India is one of them, it is on the edge but is still holding. 

The skills, techniques, and materials used to make handicrafts are extremely unique, durable, beautiful, and fashionable, which creates a great impression globally. Handicraft products can be bamboo to brass handicrafts, dokra metal craft, and wooden hand-crafted items. 

Today the handicrafts, we see are mostly ornamental or used for gifting purposes like home decor. But ages back, hand-crafted things were used not only in this but for various purposes and were so designed.

Each and everything was handcrafted in the old days we know the animal-skinned vase was used for drinking water, they were handcrafted as well. They were mainly complying with the necessity of the hour, earlier most of the races and humans were travelers, per se, and used natural materials to create something and make it not for just one purpose but for multiple purposes.

Even today nothing can replace the significance and the specialty of something made with hands with heart. Although nowadays things are made with more man-made or non-natural materials. Indian handicrafts and the people that are involved in making them beautiful things must be valued or given due respect for caring for this culture forward.

Nowadays, Indian handicrafts can be seen in the commercial market competing very gracefully. Lots of products have started finding their place in the room of an ordinary home to a villa. Where a lot of standardized products can be seen as well.

Our country India has always been renowned for custom since time immemorial. In the appraisal of art and music. India is the world’s highest-ranking culturally affluent. Travelers who visit India also think people in India are loved for their excellent handicrafts. India is definitely a tenting spot to buy these handicrafts! In India, each regional place has generation long skills in specific crafts industries. Still, some craftsmen find it quite challenging to sell unique crafts in India not all of them. A much bigger challenge for them is to hunt for the actual marketplace where actual well-crafted handicrafts are sold. Most of the Indian rural people still survive in their artistic jobs and India still succeeded in maintaining its craftsmanship. It’s an art as well as its craft. 

The handicraft and handloom industry has been the backbone of India’s rural economy for decades. It is one of the huge employment generators after agriculture. Providing a key to livelihood to the country’s rural and urban population. The sector of functional on a self-sustaining business model, with the craftsmen, often growing their own raw materials and is well known for being a pioneer of environment-friendly zero-waste practices.

According to official estimates, India is home to 7 million artisans and craftsmen. The data from unofficial sources locate that the artisan strength is as high as 200 million. This wide nature of the range and disparity in the number is due to the informal and unorganized character of this sector.

So check out some of the top handicrafts of India 

Pottery is one of the top handicrafts of India. Pottery is perceived to be the most sensual type of art. Since the Harappan civilization the practice of handcrafted pottery has grown up in India. Wonderful pottery and ceramic are also one of India’s popular buys. On your journey to Rajasthan’s blue glazed pottery, West Bengal’s terracotta, Uttar Pradesh’s name conversion into the ceramic city, and the black clay pottery, Gujarat’s Khavda Pottery, Karnataka’s Bidriware, the turbans, and sculptures are the famous pottery industry of India.

Handloom sarees are one of India’s finest heritage. 

• KALAMKARI — Andhra Pradesh.
• BANARASI SILK — Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
• CHIKANKARI EMBROIDERY — Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.
• SAMBALPURI FABRIC — Sambalpur, Odisha.
• IKAT FABRIC — Pochampalli, Hyderabad.
• CHANDERI — Madhya Pradesh.
• PAITHANI BROCADE — Aurangabad, Maharashtra.

Sarees are famous and this is providing huge economical support to the Indian economy.

You can find various types of shells made from shell crafts in India. Shells of conch, seashells.  Varieties of shells in handicrafts include various products such as forks, decorating pots, lockets, curtains, lanterns, mirror frames, etc. In specific, shell handicraft locations on the sea such as the Gulf of Mannar, Odisha, Goa, etc. are present here and at lower rates in excess. You can also buy shell jewelry and bracelets in West Bengal. Definitely a must-list on the list of handicrafts of India.

Jute Artisans have developed an amazing position in the handicraft field. The jute design includes wallets, shoes, bracelets, other stones, clothing, art pieces, and more. Assam is indeed the nation’s largest source of jute, the bulk of which are in the Tinsukia, Goalpara, Morigaon, and Nagaon regions, along with others. Without bamboo products, Assam’s craft is completely incomplete. Jute weaving, with items like baskets, bags, and dolls, is common in West Bengal as well. 

• If you want to explore the annual West Bengal State Handicrafts Expo which is held each winter in Kolkata for an excellent selection of posts.