A hand-cast Dhokra brass fish sculpture styled on a warm wooden console in a sunlit interior, beside a stoneware vase A Dhokra brass standing deer styled on a wooden shelf beside books and dried pampas A brass Dhokra elephant with base styled on a luxury entry console A hand-carved Bobbili Veena miniature beside a Madhubani painting on handmade paper

Handcrafted in India · Est. Mumbai

Not manufactured.
Inherited.

Hand-painted Madhubani art, lost-wax Dhokra brass, and GI-tagged Bobbili Veena miniatures — made one piece at a time, by the families who have always made them.

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GST & IEC Registered Exporter
Bought Direct from Artisans
GI-Protected Craft Heritage
Shipped Worldwide from Mumbai
A hand-carved rosewood Bobbili Veena miniature resting beside a handmade paper Madhubani illustration on a dark wood surface

Our Story

"Our pieces are not manufactured. They are inherited traditions, painted, cast and carved by hands trained since childhood."

Jaggo Earthroots works with three craft communities in India: Madhubani painters in the villages of Mithila, Bihar; Dhokra brass casters from the tribal belt of Chhattisgarh and Odisha; and a family veena workshop in Bobbili, Andhra Pradesh — home of a craft protected by Geographical Indication status.

We buy directly from these artisans, at fair prices we're glad to disclose, and export finished pieces to museum stores, galleries and design-led homes around the world. Every piece is an original. Nothing is mass-produced.

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Three traditions, each unbroken

Every collection is rooted in one region, one technique and one community — nothing here is reproduced at scale.

Hand-painted Madhubani folk art on handmade paper, fine linework in natural pigment Mithila, Bihar

Madhubani Wall Art

Hand-painted originals, unframed & rolled Lost-wax cast Dhokra brass sculpture with intricate tribal detailing Chhattisgarh & Odisha

Dhokra Brass Décor

Lost-wax casting, ~4,000 years old Hand-carved rosewood Bobbili Veena miniature instrument Bobbili, Andhra Pradesh

Bobbili Veena

GI-protected instrument craft
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Solid brass Dhokra standing deer sculpture styled on a wooden shelf beside books and dried pampas Dhokra brass standing deer sculpture, full profile Close-up of the lost-wax cast texture on the Dhokra brass deer

Featured Piece

The Standing Deer, in Dhokra Brass

$28.50 wholesale FCA Mumbai

Cast using the lost-wax method by tribal artisans in Chhattisgarh — a technique unchanged for roughly four thousand years. A clay mould is built around a wax original, then broken open to free the piece, which means no two castings are ever quite identical.

Material
Solid brass, lost-wax cast
Origin
Tribal Chhattisgarh, India
Piece weight
Approx. 150–400g
Care
Dry cloth only; brass will patina naturally
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Why Jaggo Earthroots

Built on direct trade, not a supply chain

Authentic Handmade

No moulded reproductions, no factory runs. Every painting, casting and carving is made and finished entirely by hand.

Ethically Sourced

We buy directly from artisan families at agreed fair prices — no middle layer of trading agents between the maker and us.

Supports Rural Artisans

Income stays with named craft communities in Bihar, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh rather than an intermediary export house.

Natural Materials

Handmade paper, natural pigment, solid brass and rosewood — nothing plastic, laminated or synthetic.

Worldwide Shipping

Air-freighted from Mumbai. Paintings ship unframed and rolled, which keeps freight costs down and nothing arrives broken.

Secure Packaging

Brass and Veena pieces are cushioned and boxed for export; paintings travel in rigid tubes built for air transit.

The Hands Behind It

Three communities. One working principle.

We buy directly from the people who make each piece — no trading agent in between.

Hand-painted Madhubani artwork on handmade paper, fine natural-pigment linework

Mithila, Bihar

These walls became paper.

For centuries, Madhubani was painted directly onto the mud walls of homes in Mithila — by women, for weddings and festivals — and lost to replastering generation after generation. A severe 1966 drought changed that: the All India Handicrafts Board suggested painting on paper instead, so the work could be sold for income. An art form thousands of years old became something you could own, within living memory.

Tribal Chhattisgarh & Odisha

A mould that is broken every time.

Dhokra is lost-wax casting, roughly four thousand years old and largely unchanged. A wax model is built by hand, coated in clay, then fired — the wax melts away, molten brass fills the cavity, and the clay shell is broken open to free the piece. Because the mould only survives one casting, every Dhokra piece is structurally one-of-one.

Detailed lost-wax cast texture on a Dhokra brass sculpture
Close detail of hand-carved rosewood inlay work on a Bobbili Veena, showing fine handwork

Bobbili, Andhra Pradesh

One family. One instrument, protected by law.

A single family workshop has built full-size veenas for generations. The miniature we export — six and nine inches — is carved from rosewood using the same technique, at a scale meant for a shelf rather than a stage. It carries Geographical Indication status: legal recognition that it can only be made here, by this method.

We've chosen not to publish staged portraits or invented biographies of individual artisans until we can do it properly — with real names, real villages and their permission. As we complete studio visits, this will be updated with named artisan profiles and photography.

How a Piece Is Made

From sketch to your door

01

Sketch & Mould

Madhubani begins as a pencil outline on handmade paper; Dhokra begins as a wax model built over a clay core.

02

Craft

Natural pigment is layered by hand, or molten brass is poured into the mould and left to cool.

03

Finish

The clay mould is broken away, or the final linework is added — every piece finished individually, never in batch.

04

Pack & Ship

Paintings roll into rigid tubes; brass and Veena pieces are cushioned and boxed, then flown from Mumbai.

A Note on Trust

We're a young export house — and transparent about it

Jaggo Earthroots is a new export operation built on an established family craft-sourcing base. We won't invent customer reviews we don't have. What we will do: send a sample at our cost before you commit to an order, share our GST and IEC registration on request, and answer any question about what artisans are paid. Ask us anything before you buy — that's how we'd rather earn the relationship.

For Museum Stores, Galleries & Retailers

Wholesale enquiries welcome

MOQs from 5 pieces. FCA Mumbai pricing, sample pieces available at cost, and a wholesale line sheet on request. We currently ship to museum shops, fair-trade importers and design-led retail across North America and Europe.

Field Notes

Craft stories worth knowing

Madhubani painting depicting village heritage

Madhubani

These walls became paper

For centuries Madhubani was painted onto the walls of homes in Mithila, made for weddings and festivals, then lost to replastering. A 1966 drought changed that — read how it moved from wall to paper.

Close-up texture of lost-wax cast Dhokra brass

Dhokra

The mould is broken every time

Four thousand years of lost-wax casting, and every Dhokra piece still destroys its own mould to exist. That's why no two are ever identical.

Scale comparison of the Bobbili Veena miniature

Bobbili Veena

An instrument protected by law

The Bobbili Veena carries Geographical Indication status — a legal recognition that this craft belongs to one place, and can only be made there.

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