Made to order in Kutch - dispatch in 7-10 days
Artisans receive 62% of every rupee you pay. The split is printed on the invoice.
Free shipping across India above ₹2,500 · Cash on Delivery available
These bells are cut from scrap iron sheet, folded and hammered cold into shape with no welding and no solder - the joints are locked mechanically. The body is then coated in copper and brass powder with a mud-and-clay paste and fired, which is what gives it the warm colour and the resonance.
Salim Luhar tunes each one by ear after firing, filing the lip until it sits in the right note; the Luhar families of Nirona traditionally made these for herders, who could identify an individual animal by the sound of its bell across the grassland. The thirteen sizes are tuned to sit together, so a cluster of three or four rings as a chord.
Every piece is made to order in the cluster, so we dispatch in 7-10 days and write to you with the artisan’s name when it leaves Bhuj. Pan-India courier is free above ₹2,500 and international shipping is quoted at checkout; Cash on Delivery is available across India and a GST invoice is included with every order. Because these are handmade, colour, weave and finish will vary slightly from the photographs - that variation is the craft, not a defect.
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The Ajrakh runner is beautiful, but what I keep telling people about is the card that came with it naming Juned Khatri and the village. Dispatch took nine days exactly as stated, and the GST invoice showed the artisan share. I have bought three more things since.
I grew up seeing Patola at weddings and always assumed the real thing was out of reach. Bharatbhai sent photographs from the loom every few weeks. The reverse is identical to the front, which is the test. Expensive, and completely fair.
The Suf embroidery is finer than anything I have found in Delhi emporiums and the mirrors are properly set, not glued. My only note is that the cover ran about a centimetre small against my insert - they did say handwork varies, so read that line seriously.
Ordered the set of three copper bells on a whim and they genuinely sound tuned to each other. Paid Cash on Delivery, arrived in Kochi in five days after dispatch, packed in cloth and straw rather than plastic. Ordering the brass lamp next.
