{"title":"Indian Handicrafts Online","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost places that call themselves Indian handicraft stores are aggregators - a little bit of everything, sourced from everywhere, made by no one you'll ever know the name of.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEthniiChic is the opposite of that. Every piece available here is hand-painted or hand-crafted by a specific group of artists - in our studio, by hands we know, using techniques rooted in identifiable Indian art traditions. These are not handicrafts in the generic sense. They are specific expressions of specific art forms, made with a level of care and cultural fidelity that mass production structurally cannot replicate. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you've been searching for Indian handicrafts online and finding the same undifferentiated products everywhere you look - this is where that search ends. 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Rendered here in warm terracotta with intricate white linework and dot-work covering the muzzle, brow, and bridle straps, this horse head carries a texture and rhythm closer to ceramic ware than typical painted wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKhavda Pottery is one of the oldest continuous pottery traditions in the Indian subcontinent, historically produced by artisan communities in Kutch using natural pigments and painstaking hand-drawn dot and line work. Our artisans translate that same visual language onto solid wood, hand-carving the horse head form and then hand-painting the white detailing dot by dot and line by line — a meditative, time-intensive process that mirrors the original pottery technique it's inspired by.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMounted on its stand, this piece suits anyone drawn to the tribal, textural side of Indian folk art. 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