The real thing,
properly named.

We did not start with a product. We started with a frustration. The world keeps falling for India's crafts without ever learning where they come from, or what they are called.

The Indian Cradle is a house built to fix that. We go to the source, we choose slowly, and we bring back crafts that have earned their place, named properly and made by the people whose hands have always made them. Some of what we are sent does not make it. That choosing is the whole point.

We are not here to reinvent these crafts. We are here to carry them well, and to build the experience around them with the same care the makers put into the object itself.

Founded by Shubham and Ketki, husband and wife from Maharashtra, living in London.

Chapter one: Kolhapuri.
Handmade leather chappals from Maharashtra, made by artisans who hold the craft's recognition. If you grew up around these, you already know them. If you did not, this is the original, not a version of it.

The leather is vegetable-tanned, no chrome, no shortcuts. It is a real skin, so it softens to your foot, ages instead of wearing out, and can be repaired rather than replaced. When it finally ends, it returns to the earth instead of lasting forever in it. Made by hand, traceable to its source, and built to be kept.

We do not stamp our name on the leather. The craft is older than any brand, and it is not ours to sign. What we add goes around the object, never on it.

Arriving Diwali.

Kolhapuri is the first craft, not the only one. India holds more living crafts than any one lifetime can carry, each tied to a place, a name, a pair of hands. We will bring them one chapter at a time, chosen with the same care.

This is a house, not a shop. Stay with us, and you will see why.