Indian bag makers work vegetable-tanned leather and salvaged sari cloth with the same hands, often in the same workshop. Nappa Dori builds vegetable-tanned leather trunks and camera bags by Gautam Sinha in Delhi. Ragbag upcycles fair-trade totes from recycled saris and cement sacks. Krishna Creations hand-stitches leather bags and jackets. Indian summers test every seam, so check the stitching at the stress points. Leather conditioned before the monsoon does not crack quietly during it, which is the cheapest repair there is.
Hand block-printing workshop and shop in Bagru village near Jaipur, run by Jai Texart LLP; offers 2-hour to 2-day natural-dye printing classes (4,000+ trained since 2014) and sells block-printed textiles.
Best for Natural-dyed textiles bought straight from the village source
Bagru village, about 32 km southwest of Jaipur in Rajasthan, has been a center of hand block printing for generations. The Bagru workshop is operated by Jai Texart LLP, based at Jai Bagh, Narvaria Road, Bagru, with a secondary office in Jaipur's Chandpole Bazaar. The business runs three strands: hands-on block-printing workshops (having trained more than 4,000 participants since roughly 2014), documentation cataloguing over 2,000 traditional block designs, and a retail line of block-printed apparel, home textiles and accessories, all dyed with natural materials such as indigo, madder root and turmeric.
Hand block prints Bagru and Dabu patterns onto cotton fabric using natural dyes and resists including turmeric, iron, sesame oil, cow dung and mud, a trade the site says it has worked in for more than 110 years. Cloth is sold in 5-metre thaan lengths for saris, kurtis, suits and bedsheets.
Mehera Shaw runs production across both Bagru and Sanganer, using AZO-free pigments at its Sanganer facility while working with Bagru artisans who still hand-block print using vegetable dyes and mud-resist techniques. A Craftmark member, the label turns those textiles into cotton, silk, and linen clothing and homeware that sets traditional motifs alongside Mediterranean tile and Japanese origami-inspired patterns.
Best for Hand block-printed cotton and silk clothing
Established at Chandni Chowk in Delhi in 1954, Chhabra 555 is a bridal and ethnic-wear house offering sarees, suits, lehengas and gowns in fabrics like silk, georgette and Banarasi brocade. It runs retail stores in Chandni Chowk and Karol Bagh and ships its collections through an online store.
Best for Textiles, ethnic wear, sarees, bridal fashion
Devan's has sourced and roasted coffee from Delhi's Khanna Market since 1962, now run by a third generation. The catalog spans single-origin beans and custom blends to cold brew bags, chicory, and Nespresso-compatible capsules.
Best for Catalog spans single-origin beans and custom blends to cold brew bags, chicory
Devan's has been sourcing and roasting coffee from the same Khanna Market address in Delhi's Lodhi Colony since 1962, which makes the current operation a three-generation family business rather than a single founder's shop still running on its original owner. The company's own description is specific about the work involved — sourcing and expertly roasting the best single origin coffees and skilfully crafting blends — for what it counts as nearly six decades, a claim that lines up with the 1962 founding date rather than rounding up. The catalog reflects a business that has kept adding formats rather than sticking to one: single-origin beans, custom blends, cold brew and hot brew bags, chicory blends aimed at a more traditional filter-coffee drinker, imported coffee, and Nespresso-compatible capsules for customers who've moved to pod machines, plus a complementary tea line. Customer testimonials cited on the company's own site reference relationships going back fifty years and beyond — a detail that, paired with the three-generation framing, suggests a business built more on repeat, long-term customers than one-time tourist traffic. For a shopper today, Devan's reads as a rare case of a mid-century Delhi roaster that adapted its product line, capsule compatibility included, without relocating from its original market address.
Retail outlet of Himalaya Wellness Company, the Ayurvedic health and personal-care maker founded 1930 in Dehradun by Muhammad Manal, now headquartered in Bengaluru; Himalaya runs many standalone stores across New Delhi neighborhoods such as Malviya Nagar and Karol Bagh.
Best for Herbal skincare and personal care
The Himalaya Drug Company was founded in 1930 in Dehradun by Muhammad Manal, who set out to bring Ayurvedic medicine into a modern, scientifically-tested form. Its first major product, Serpina - developed from the plant Rauwolfia serpentina - launched in 1934 as an early anti-hypertensive drug. The company grew into a multinational headquartered in Bengaluru, selling several hundred herbal health and personal-care products in over 100 countries. In India it operates a large network of branded retail stores; New Delhi alone has multiple Himalaya Wellness outlets, including locations in Malviya Nagar, Karol Bagh, Laxmi Nagar, and Paharganj/Connaught Place.
Gautam Sinha started Nappa Dori in 2010 from a single Hauz Khas Village store, cutting vegetable-tanned leather into trunks, satchels and camera bags. The Dhan Mill flagship pairs the leather goods with Cafe Dori and stationery, backed by an in-house workshop.
Best for Vegetable-tanned leather trunks and camera bags by Gautam Sinha
Fair-trade accessories brand founded in 2005 by Siem Haffmans after meeting Delhi designer Anita Ahuja, who pioneered pressing waste plastic bags into sheets; Ragbag pays India-based ragpickers and fabricators to turn saris, tea sacks and plastic waste into totes.
Best for Fair-trade totes upcycled from recycled saris and cement sacks
Ragbag was founded in 2005 by industrial designer Siem Haffmans, after a trip to Delhi for a conference on sustainable design where he met Anita Ahuja, who had developed a process for pressing collected plastic waste bags into usable sheet material. Ragbag's products are made across different regions of India from upcycled materials: a Delhi Collection from plastic and canvas waste, a Tamil Nadu Collection from used tea sacks, and a Calcutta Collection from recycled cotton and saris. Raw materials are gathered by ragpickers, who along with fabricators are paid a fair price for their work, following the ten principles of the World Fair Trade Organization, with production partners belonging to Fair Trade Forum India.
Main Market, 26, Block 13, Lodi Colony, New Delhi 110003, India / Delhi / India
Time Out Delhi (8 Oct 2025): reincarnation of K.D. Singh's 1971 Jor Bagh shop, moved to Lodhi Colony after the 2023 close; curated independent-press and South Asian stock. Vogue India: Sonal Narain and Mahika Chaturvedi still running the Lodhi Colony Market crimson-door walk-in.
Jaipur market known for Bandhani and block-printed fabrics, leather bags and juttis. Many stalls offer same-day tailoring for fabric bought on the spot.
Best for Textiles, mojari shoes, and leather goods
Jaipur block printing manufacturer at Diggi Malpura Road, Sanganer, where artisans hand-carve wooden blocks and press them onto fabric using natural dyes via pigment, reactive, mud-resist, Bagru and discharge print processes. ISO 9001:2015 certified, making running fabrics, bedsheets, quilts and dupattas.
Soma sells block-printed bed linen, tableware, clothing, bags and curtains from its Jaipur bungalow store. Repeated textiles connect home and wardrobe pieces, making print scale and dye variation worth examining.
Best for Block-printed bed linen, sarees, and garments from a bungalow store
Ready-to-wear and accessories label operated inside Jaipur's City Palace by the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation, founded by Princess Gauravi Kumari and Claire Deroo. Garments, bags and home pieces are hand block-printed by women artisans trained through the foundation's craft-revival programs.
Best for Craft and fashion from local makers, women-led
The PDKF Store was founded by Princess Gauravi Kumari and Claire Deroo as the retail arm of the Princess Diya Kumari Foundation, a Rajasthan-based non-profit focused on grassroots artisan empowerment. The store operates from a space inside Jaipur's City Palace and sells ready-to-wear clothing, bags, home goods and accessories built around traditional Jaipuri hand block-printing techniques. The foundation's PDKF Artisan Collective has brought together more than 70 women artisans representing over 40 craft forms from more than 20 Indian states. Coverage frames the store as part of a deliberate effort to keep block-printing and related handwork commercially viable for the women who practice it.
This Bagbazar sweet house traces its lineage to Nobin Chandra Das, credited with inventing the spongy rosogolla in the 1860s, and the family later pioneered canning the syrup-soaked sweet for long-distance travel. The shop still centers its counter on rosogolla, sponge rosogolla, and rajbhog alongside other milk-based Bengali sweets.
Best for Rosogolla, the sweet K.C. Das made famous
Satyabrata Dey started this leather goods business from a small shop on Lindsay Street in the early 1960s, aiming to make quality leather footwear affordable rather than a luxury good. The family-run brand, now led by the founder's descendants, remains a Bengal household name for shoes, bags, and belts.
Best for Leather footwear and bags at accessible prices
Chimanlals has worked from A-2 Taj Building on D.N. Road in Fort, Mumbai for decades, making decorative Indian paper goods, gift wrap, tags, envelopes and gift bags. Its motifs draw on traditional Indian design, sold from the shop near the New Excelsior Cinema.
Best for Paper, stationery, gift wrap, handmade paper
Ajrakh Barmer produces hand block-printed, naturally dyed textiles rooted in the region's Ajrakh tradition, working across screen-printing and appliqué. Its range spans sarees, apparel, bags and home decor.
Best for Hand block-printed Ajrakh sarees, dupattas and home textiles
A Hampi-based maker weaving bags, accessories and homeware from banana fibre and water hyacinth pulled from the Tungabhadra, finished with tamarind-seed beads and river-grass seeds. The workshop frames its work around turning agricultural and invasive-plant waste into usable goods while supporting local artisans.
Best for Banana-fibre and water-hyacinth bags and homeware
Homera Tannery has run integrated leather production in Kanpur since 1987, operating five LWG-certified tanneries alongside its own footwear and goods workshops rather than outsourcing finishing work. It turns hides into finished leather, belts, bags, and safety and fashion footwear for buyers sourcing directly from India's historic leather district.
Best for Finished leather, leather footwear and bags
Mohammed Shareef Khan founded Inland Leather Company in 1975 to process cow, buffalo, goat, and sheep hides into finished and semi-finished leather for shoes, bags, upholstery, and equestrian goods. Its Kanpur workshops still ship to customers across Europe and North America from the district long nicknamed the 'Manchester of the East' for its tanneries.
Best for Finished leather for footwear, bags and upholstery
Krishna Creations formalized in 2018 a leather workshop whose hand-stitching techniques the family says it had practiced for more than a decade before that, turning out bags, jackets, shoes, and hard goods from its Naubasta workshop. The small, ISO-certified operation emphasizes hand-finished construction over the mass-tannery output more typical of Kanpur's export trade.
This Rishikesh maker works natural fibers such as jute and bhimal, the Himalayan nettle, into bags and handcrafted goods. Its craft draws entirely on plant fibers.
Best for Natural-fiber (jute / bhimal) handmade bags and crafts
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