Our craft
A curation house, not a factory
Rajghoomar does not run a factory. We work across the craft clusters of Rajasthan — the wood-carving town of Bassi, the blue-pottery workshops around Sanganer, the marble belt at Makrana — selecting pieces workshop by workshop and checking each one before it is packed. What we sell is a selection, made by people who have worked these materials for generations, not a production line.
Four crafts, four places
Carved wood comes from Bassi, near Chittorgarh — a town that has worked hardwood since at least the 16th century, and the last real home of the kavad storytelling shrine. Blue pottery belongs to Sanganer and Jaipur: a quartz-ground ceramic, glazed in cobalt, that contains no clay at all and carries a GI tag. Marble comes from the Makrana belt in Nagaur — the same white stone the Taj Mahal was built from, quarried there for some 800 years. Bone inlay is set by hand in Rajasthan's furniture workshops, a technique Mughal artisans brought to the region more than four centuries ago.
How we work
We keep batches small and stand behind what we ship. Each product page names the material, the technique and the cluster it comes from — and where a piece is made to order, the lead time is stated up front. Because every piece is worked by hand, small variations between one and the next are expected, and are part of what you are buying.
The hands behind the work
The Blue-Pottery Painters of Sanganer
Sanganer, near Jaipur — Rajasthan
Blue pottery is not really Indian, and it is not really pottery. The technique travelled from Persia through Central Asia and arrived...
The Inlay Workshops of Rajasthan
Western Rajasthan
Inlay came to Rajasthan with Mughal artisans more than four centuries ago and settled into the royal workshops, particularly around Udaipur and...
The Marble Artisans of the Makrana Belt
Makrana & Kishangarh — Rajasthan
Makrana marble has been quarried in Nagaur district for roughly 800 years, and the quarries are still being worked. It is the...