A proper eye-catcher for the incense display – colourful, unusual and easy to cross-sell alongside incense, crystals and other spiritual gifts.
Handmade mosaic decoration – tiny pieces of ceramic are carefully assembled to create the distinctive rich colours and intricate finish.
Packed with symbolism – Buddha, Ganesha, elephants, Om and chakra designs give customers more than simply somewhere to burn incense.
No two are quite the same – little irregularities are part of the handmade character and give these holders their individual charm.
Useful as well as decorative – designed for burning incense, while looking good enough to leave out as a piece of Eastern-inspired home décor.
A colourful wholesale incense range from India – particularly at home in gift shops, crystal shops, yoga studios and alternative lifestyle stores.
Easy to build into a themed display – add incense sticks, cones, crystals or meditation gifts and suddenly a small corner of the shop becomes rather tempting.
These are genuine Old Delhi style artifacts. Old Delhi is not exactly the most peaceful place in India to make an incense holder. Rickshaws, traders, tiny shops, people, horns, spices, chai... and more people. But disappear down one of the old galis and behind the shopfronts you still find small workshops where things are being made much as they have been for generations.
The old city – Shahjahanabad – has a remarkable craft history. Skills were traditionally passed through families or by the ustad–chela system, master teaching apprentice, and many of those little workshops still survive today. Suiwalan, for example, became known for blue pottery and decorative ceramic work, a tradition linked back to Persian tile makers who came to Delhi during the Mughal period. That history somehow makes these incense holders make more sense.
Tiny pieces of coloured ceramic are laid by hand, building up the rich reds, blues and turquoise around Buddhas, elephants, Ganesha, Om and chakra designs. It is slow, slightly fiddly work – exactly the sort of work that never looks quite the same twice.
And perhaps that is the charm. They are not trying to look perfectly machine-made. A slightly uneven piece here or a small variation there is simply the hand of the maker showing through.
Delhi has been absorbing ideas, people and crafts for centuries, taking influences from Persia, Central Asia and all over India and somehow making them its own. These holders have a little of that same feeling – Indian made, Tibetan inspired and unmistakably from that colourful Asian craft tradition.
Add incense and suddenly the story is complete.
From a noisy little workshop in Old Delhi to a quiet corner of somebody's home. Rather a nice journey for an incense holder.
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