Gunmala Handicrafts
Made slowly, in small numbers.
Customised movable furniture, wallpapers, handicrafts, paintings, decor and statues. Every piece is made to order and finished by hand, which means we make few of them and we take our time. If you want something built to your room rather than to a warehouse, this is the right place.
Six things, made to order
Nothing here is stocked in bulk. You tell us the piece, the room and the finish, and it gets made for that brief.
Customised Furniture
Movable pieces rather than fitted joinery. Sofas, accent chairs, benches and tables, sized and upholstered to your room instead of to a standard catalogue dimension.
Wallpapers
Patterns and panels chosen or drawn for a specific wall, with the repeat set out so the design lands where you want it rather than wherever the roll happens to end.
Handicrafts
Murals and hand-worked pieces in the traditional motifs, made by craftspeople rather than pressed out of a mould. Small variations between pieces are part of the work, not a defect.
Paintings
Original and commissioned work, scaled to the wall it is going on and to the light it will live in. We would rather size a piece properly than sell you one that fits nothing.
Decor
The objects that finish a room once the building work is done. Chosen or made so they sit with the rest of the space rather than competing with it.
Statues & Temples
Figurines, murals and temple pieces, including carved and jaali work. Made in the proportions you need for the niche or corner it is going into.
Why there is never much of it
We are not trying to be hard to buy from. The volume is low because of how the work is actually done, and it is fairer to say that at the start than to promise a date we cannot hold.
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Nothing is made before you order it
There is no warehouse of finished stock waiting to be shipped. Your piece starts being made after the brief is agreed, which is the only way it can be built to your dimensions and your finish.
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The finishing is done by hand
Carving, painting and detailing are hand processes and they take the time they take. Rushing them is visible in the result, so we do not.
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We work in small batches
A small number of pieces are in production at any time. That keeps the same hands on the same work, and it is the reason we would rather quote you an honest lead time than a convenient one.
What to expect before you ask
Lead times are long and they vary by piece. A wallpaper run and a carved temple piece are not the same job, so we quote the time along with the price once we know what you actually want. If your date is fixed and tight, tell us at the first conversation and we will say plainly whether it can be done rather than find out halfway through. If we cannot take the work on, we will tell you that too.
Sister Studio
Gunmala Interiors
Handicrafts makes what moves through a room. Gunmala Interiors builds what stays with it: modular kitchens, wardrobes, ceilings and fitted storage, designed and executed end to end in Bengaluru.
If your home is being done from scratch, start there and the movable pieces can follow once the built work is in.
Visit Gunmala InteriorsThe catalogue lives on gunmala.com
Current pieces, prices and what is available right now are all on the Gunmala Handicrafts store. If you want something that is not on it, that is usually the more interesting conversation.
Gunmala Handicrafts and Gunmala Interiors are sister businesses.