Handpicked cultural products, musical instruments, acoustic art, and heritage designs from the world of Indian arts. Hand-finished by master artisans and shipped from our Sharjah studio.
From Kairali Arts Centre, Sharjah — preserving Indian arts for over 30 years.
Every piece is made by hand, signed by name, and shipped from our Sharjah studio. Two-thirds of what you pay reaches the artisan family. The rest keeps Kairali Arts Centre running.
Pit-looms, hand-loaded kilns, signed scrolls. We measure in weeks, not minutes.
Two-thirds of every order goes back to the artisan, not the middleman.
Every scroll is signed. Every pit-loom has a weaver. Every veena, a luthier.
Worldwide shipping — so the looms keep running and the diaspora stays close to home.
Five hundred years ago the Cochin royal family invited weavers from Kanchipuram to a small Thrissur village called Koothampally and asked them to weave temple garments. Their descendants still sit at the same pit-looms. Master weaver Gopalan and his neighbours weave every metre of our shirt fabric on wooden treadles — the rhythmic thump of his shuttle is the first sound you hear when you walk into the village.
In a single Bengal village called Naya, almost every household paints. They are the Patuas — the singing-storyteller painters who unroll a scroll, sing the story painted on it, then roll it back up. Three generations of one family hand-painted every plate, vase, kettle, scroll and key-holder in our line. Pigments come from turmeric, hibiscus, indigo, soot and chalk. Nothing leaves the village unsigned.
A mridangam takes forty days to make. The wood is jackfruit; the skins are layered cow and buffalo hide; the black mantle (karanai) at the centre is a paste of iron filings, rice and tamarind. Our makers are families in Tanjavur (mridangam & veena), Kannur (chenda), Meerut (tabla & dholak). We also curate a small Western practice line under Kairali Music — a beginner acoustic guitar and a stage keyboard, both at 300 AED.
Our half sarees come from the same temple-cotton mills that supply the Kalakshetra Foundation in Chennai. The fabric is loom-state cotton dyed in Madurai with reactive dyes; the dancer-figure borders are woven on jacquard attachments by women cooperatives. Eight named colourways. Free-size 4.5 to 5 metre drape. Blouse piece in every order.
Vadasery, a quarter of Nagercoil, has been making temple jewellery for the south-Indian dance traditions for three generations. Each piece is cast in a single brass mould, then hand-set with red kemp stones, green emeralds and freshwater pearls before being finished in 24-carat gold plating. The same silversmiths who made our line have made jewellery for the Kalakshetra Foundation’s arangetrams.
Custom murals at any size, themed acoustic panels, bulk school equipment, corporate gifts, festival decoration. Every special order is quoted on WhatsApp in under an hour. Price on request.
Kairali Acoustics was born inside our own teaching studios. We were running out of wall space to put acoustic panels — and we hated the way ugly grey-foam panels looked next to a Theyyam mural. So we made our own. NRC 0.85 noise reduction. Three sizes. Eight Indian art prints. French-cleat install in 30 seconds.
