Kamala

Welcome to Kamala. You’ve arrived at the original and definitive store for Indian handmade crafts. Named for the founder of the handmade movement in India, freedom fighter and nationalist Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, it has the most wide-ranging, comprehensive and authentic collection of Indian handicrafts and handmade textiles found anywhere in the country, indeed the world. The collection is also hand-picked. CCI buyers reach out personally to the best of the best artisans, travelling to remote regions of India, to select and often commission choice collectibles that will appeal to the sensibilities of the discerning buyer. The result is a range of breathtaking variety and novelty, not only in objects but in ideas, materials, skills, design and rendering. Our viewpoint is best expressed by a single and constant principle: we do not stock anything that we would not ourselves buy. Every purchase at Kamala helps to support the artisan directly. Indirectly, buying handmade does not only ensure that traditional skills are fostered. It creates a demand for education in these skills so that the craft lives on.