Introduction to Handmade Nepal

We are one of the pioneer families in promoting Nepalese & Tibetan Handicrafts. Our family has been engage in aiding the historical culture of Nepalese & Tibetan Handicrafts for three generations now.  

Initially, our basic focus of business was only on Copper Statue crafting through the process of Loss-wax method. The statue crafting profession was pass on to us by our ancestors from Shakya clan who have learn this method of statue crafting from Tibet during their frequent trade-visit in the ancient past. The dharma teachers promoted this culture of statue making in Buddhist monasteries during their leisure times in Ancient Tibet. But, again, if we look into a further depth of the history, we will find that Statue crafting culture was first initiated in Ancient Nepal itself. This culture of Statue crafting was adopted into Tibetan Culture by Nepalese Artists who went to Tibet along with Nepalese Princess Bhrikuti (Green Tara) when she got married with the then very strong Tibetan King Tsong Zong Gampo. 

Slowly, in the recent years, we have also started to incorporate other Buddhist related arts & dharma crafts in our product range. Today, we spiritually believe that we should try our best to protect the ancient heritage of Buddhist Arts & Culture, which is slowly diminishing in this rapidly mechanizing modern world.

Therefore, the main objective of our company today has been to provide the continuity to the Buddhist Arts & Culture by providing continuous support to the artist communities devoted on this culture by means of effective marketing of their products in the world market. 

To become an effective marketer for these products in the world market, today, we are trying to become a professional organization with equally conscious responsibilities. 

  Key members of Handmade Nepal

Objective of Handmade Nepal

To maintain the Buddhist Arts and Culture by providing continuous support to its artist and craft communities by effective marketing of their outcomes in the world market.

Handmade Nepal's Buddhist Art & Craft ranges 

A)    Copper Statue Arts:
Copper Statues is the main USP of Handmade Nepal. We are from the Statue crafting family and have been engaged in Copper Statues crafting through Loss-wax method for three generation now.

Copper statues can be broadly divided into three major sectors today:
 i)            Plain Copper Statues
ii)           Partly Gold Plated Statues
iii)        Fully Gold Plated Statues

Statue crafting can be further categories into other sector as:
i)              Silver Statues
ii)           Bronze Statues
iii)        Brass Statues
iv)        Copper sheet Statues

B)    Silver Jewelry Crafts:
Silver Jewelry is the second most popular item with Handmade Nepal. We comprises of mainly Buddhist Cultural related silver jewelry. Our main focus in silver jewelry in traditional Tibetan & Sherpa ranges is:
 i)           Silver Bracelets
ii)          Tibetan & Sherpa Lockets, Beads and Pray boxes (Ghaus)
iii)       Tibetan & Sherpa typical Necklaces

Other major silver crafted items are:
i)             Silver typical jewelry Boxes
ii)           Silver Animals & Birds
iii)         Silver Pray wheels & other ritual items
iv)         Silver Copies of Tibetan Household items like, Teapot, Tea Cup, GheeBoxes,Kapali, Offering Bowls, Butter Lamp etc.

C)    Tibetan, Sherpa & Newar Thanka Painting Arts:
Though thanka painting is one of the old art in Buddhism, Handmade Nepal has just recently started to initiated these art materials. Thanka paintings can be broadly categories into two types:
 i)          Thanka Painting with Gold touch
ii)         Thanka Painting without Gold touch

Most popular range of thanka paintings are mandalas, Wheel of Life, Buddha life and other individual art of single deities.

D)   Ritual Buddhist Craft Items:
Handmade Nepal ranges of ritual Buddhist items are basically to cater the need of different practicing items by the dharma practitioners. This product category comprises of: Bell & dorje, Singing Bowls, Symbols (Taa), Trumpets, pray wheels, offering bowls, butter lamps, incense burners, incense holders, other different ritual items.

E)     Dharma Crafts:
This is one of the most popular product category of Handmade Nepal and comprises of many varieties. Dharma crafts are the creative items by the dharma practitioners, which help to promote spiritual dharma messages throughout the world for the goodness of all sentiment beings in this planet.

Basically, the dharma crafts are divided into:
i)                   Pray bead Malas and power beads
ii)                 Meditation Supplies
iii)              Dharma Clothing lines

Other than above mention crafts, Handmade Nepal is always open to new & innovative ideas on the art & craft ranges. Lokta paper crafting is one of the new crafting ideas initiated by Handmade Nepal.