What You Will Experience

Meet founders, designers and artisans who are reworking India’s craft traditions for a contemporary market. Choose any three of seven studios and hear, in private, how each built a business around a craft. Tableware, block-print apparel, jewellery, furniture, handcrafted watches and surface design are all on offer across the trail.

Meet the people rethinking waste, materials and traditional craft. Choose any three stops and see sustainability made tangible. Textile scrap becomes handloom rugs, elephant dung becomes paper, discarded feathers turn into wearable fabric, and flowers and leaves print cloth. At one stop, share a simple home-cooked meal with the family.

From the vat to the cloth. Choose one stop in Bagru or Sanganer and spend two to three hours with the people who hold indigo’s wisdom. Watch a vat being worked, then try the process yourself. See how carved wooden blocks and natural dyes come together to make textile patterns.

Meet second and third generation artisans carrying India’s craft traditions to a contemporary audience. Visit all three in their studios. See hand block printing with natural dyes, a 150-year-old leheriya tradition followed from fabric preparation to finishing, and a maker reviving the fading art of blue pottery for global audiences.

Kundan, jadau and meenakari made Jaipur a jewellery capital. Choose any two visits and see the tradition set beside the labels reworking it. Step into a modern silver studio, a collector’s museum of antique jewellery, textiles and paintings, or a heritage haveli tracing enamelling from Renaissance Europe to Rajasthan’s courts.

Private visits to makers whose work sits outside the trails, two hours each. Each stands alone, so take one or add more. See a craftsman turn rare stone, metal and wood into bespoke pieces, an artist couple make playful installations from scrap, or a watchmaker turn historic coins into timepieces.