Indian Handicrafts Industry overview

India is one of the Major Manufacture of Handicrafts and making Impact on world market. Indian Handicraft ( Furniture , Furnishing , Hard goods and  other article) Industry based on Labour and Cottage, So many small and Medium enterprises working all over India from Rural to Urban. So many Trend and traditional artisan work day to day for Bread and butter everyday.The Industry provide more than 7 million direct employment as per Indian Handicraft website. also Most of the come from lower class.

      This Industry also have Potential for grow due to High workforce available in India and Low Investment required for this and same time high value edition. There is beautiful past record of this industry in domestic and Export market for provide employment and same time help to improve gdp and Earning valuable foreign currency. Export from India is US$ 35 Billion in 1998- 99 and 280 billion in 2015.

There is so many development is agency working for Handicraft grow is below;

1. EPCH    
2. Indian Handicraft Promotion council 
3. Handicrafts department of India
4. MSME
5. Texmin

Although Indian export of Handicrafts is growing rapidly but still it have very low market share in world handicraft export. It is sector where Indian government can create lot of employment as this is still remain for explore opportunity.It is difficult to create to create a same policy for all over India as there is 29 states and 7 Union Territory. also there is wide range of handicrafts crafted in this country and most of them need separate activity for promotion.  Most of the handicrafts done via Mundra port and IGI airport and Up is the major exporter of Handicrafts. UP have 3 major city for export as per below : 

• Moradabad " Peetalnagri or Brass city"
• Saharanpur Wood work
• Firozabad Glass 

Now come in Rajesthan the Peaceful state find below major city of export.

• Jaipur for Quilt and Printed Textile 
• Bagru and Sanganer for Printed textile 
• Jodhpur for Wood and Metal furniture 

Now Come on coastal state of Gujrat Kuch for Embroider article  

Also many state have remarkable export form Kashmir to Kerala or Gurjrat to Tripura all India.

Below is list of major handicrafts export from Indian and we will discuss below

  

There is various type of classification we need use for understand about product line of Indian Handicrafts as there is huge production of wide range of product done by 7 Million regional artisan for 67000 Indian exporter and most of the export from India do for  below top countries .

Above is major Importer of Indian Handicraft  and last few year back Indian Handicrafts industry base on few country after recession our exporter try to diversify market to handle any further recession. still USA and UK have major ration in Indian Export and it is also fact that export is growing for other country fast.

Firstly we classify on the basis of use as it simple and we can divide whole handicrafts in 2 major category. 

1. Article of Everyday Use - Those article is used in daily life like furniture ,textile , mirror etc come in this group and demand of this is growing rapidly.  
2. Decorative Items - Three is lot of article which is used for Decoration like Christmas ornaments and Planter come in Decorative category.  

Now we can classify article on the basis of industry.

1. Textile Base Handicraft - When we talk about export Textile come on the top and There is separate department of  department for this. Hand printed textile including Block and screen printing, batik ,Kalamkari ( Hand printing by pen) is famous form Indian exporter also Bandhni design ( Tie and Die) world famous for Sarres , Cloth , textile and many type of product. Hand embroidered on Silk and cotton article also in current trend in export market. embroidered most use for beds, Mirror , shells and metallic pcs , few artisan also do this to Velvet and Leather article. This segment provide 5 lacs direct job and so many indirect job like designer ,Block maker, Packer and Weaver.
2. Clay
3. Metal
4. Jewelry
5.