Our Artisans

We are a group of artisans from the locality of Channapatna. Most of our main artisans are women. We train the artisans and help them polish their skills and improve their craftsmanship so as to get the best quality of product every time. A few years back when we started, nobody really thought this field would be women dominated, but today Bharath Arts and Crafrs proudly consists of 65% women artisans. In the beginning we had only one female employee and now its a rather large number. The way we went about it was that we recruited women from around the locality. Some were working in brick factories/kilns or other manual labor related work. Some were recently 12th pass and so needed means to sustain themselves and their family. In the beginning they were a bit apprehensive. But then we managed to teach them the ways of toy making, and they in turn taught it to the newer recruits. And so we managed to create a network of women who were supportive to each other and were ready to learn and teach this new craft. We even encouraged them to travel together and made the provisions for a bus pass so they could travel.