Rajasthan
Marble & brass
Idols hand-carved from white marble in Jaipur and Makrana, and sand-cast in solid brass by the metalsmiths of Moradabad — correct iconography, finished by hand.
ExploreEighty years of things
made by hand
Gharana is a heritage house of Indian craft that began in 1945 with a single workshop of marble and brass idols. Four generations on, it has grown into four worlds of handmade work — but the promise has never changed: made by hand, kept for generations.
It started with the most personal thing in an Indian home — the mandir. Before it was a website or a brand, Gharana was a workshop where idols were carved from a single block of marble and cast in solid brass, then finished by hand until the iconography was right. The people who bought them did not want the cheapest thing; they wanted the thing they could keep, and pass on.
That instinct — that a handmade object carries something a machine-made one cannot — is the whole idea Gharana is built on. We have simply extended it: to the weaver, the resin artist, and the stoneworker who still shapes a sil-batta the way their grandparents did.
- 1945
A single workshop
The house begins with what India has always kept closest — the home mandir. Marble and brass idols, carved and cast by hand for families across the country, to a standard meant to be worshipped for a lifetime.
- The decades after
The craft widens
The same insistence on doing it by hand carries beyond devotion — to the handloom weavers of the hills, the stone and woodworkers of the village kitchen, and a new generation of makers working in resin and mixed media.
- One house, four worlds
Devotion · Handloom · Craft · Home
What grew is not a catalogue of unrelated goods but four rooms of the same house — each rooted in a real craft tradition, each sourced direct from the families who make it.
- Today
The same hands, now across India
Gharana is online and delivered across India, but nothing about how the work is made has changed. It is still made by hand, still blessed before it leaves us, still built to be kept for generations.
The hands behind the house
Rooted in real craft traditions
Every world of Gharana comes from a living tradition and the families who keep it — sourced direct, made by hand, and answerable to a name, not a factory line.
Himachal & the weaving clusters
Handloom
Handwoven cotton, khadi and silk on pit and frame looms, in natural dyes — sarees, kurtas and home textiles carrying the weaver’s own hand.
ExploreStudios across India
Craft & keepsakes
A newer generation of makers pouring resin lamps and botanical keepsakes, and shaping handmade decor and personalised gifts — heritage skill, contemporary form.
ExploreThe village kitchen
Home & kitchen
Sil-batta, chakla-belan and wooden and stone goods — the everyday tools Indian kitchens have trusted for generations, still made the old, honest way.
ExploreWhat the promise means
Made by hand, kept for generations
Four things we hold to on every order, whichever world it comes from.
Provenance you can trace
Sourced direct from the artisan families who make it — no anonymous middle layers between the maker and your home.
Blessed before dispatch
Every idol is worshipped and blessed before it is packed, so it arrives ready for your mandir.
Fair to the maker
We buy direct and pay fairly, so the craft — and the hands that keep it alive — can carry on to the next generation.
Built to be kept
Real materials and time-honoured methods, made to be handed down, not thrown away. That is the whole promise.
One house, four worlds
Step into any of them — each is the same craft, in a different medium.
Bring a piece of it home
Explore the collection, or commission something made just for you — any deity, size, material or finish, made to order by the same hands.