Hands stitching a nakshi kantha embroidery on a wooden hoop
Jothashilpa

A new art language, rooted in this land

Nakshi notebooks, handwoven textiles, and metalcraft made with artisans across Bangladesh.

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Since 2016

Where tradition and the contemporary meet

Jothashilpa works with thousands of artisans and folk artists: hand-embroidery women, jamdani weavers, cinema banner painters, and rickshaw artists. Every piece pays homage to heritage while speaking a modern tongue.

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Rolls of handwoven shital pati mats in natural cane
Terracotta plaque carved with an alpana motif
From the workshops

Woven, beaten, and bound by hand

Shital pati woven from murta cane, dhokra metal cast in the lost-wax way, and notebooks bound one signature at a time. No two pieces sit quite the same, and that is the point.

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Fair trade

Artisans are paid directly, on fair terms, with full recognition

Women artisans

Rural embroidery experts and urban makers lead our workshops

Living craft

Jamdani, nakshi, dhokra, and pati traditions kept in daily practice

How we work
Woman in a red cotton gamchha sharee against a deep red handwoven backdrop
Textile

Woven to be worn

Tangail sharees, traditional gamchha, and hand-stitched cotton.

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