HobbyMela for Business
Handcrafted experiences.Meaningful collaborations.Gifts that carry a story.
Whether you’re engaging your team, designing a space, telling your brand story, or gifting with meaning, we connect you with India’s finest makers and run the whole thing end to end.
- Pan-India delivery
- GST invoice & PO-friendly
- One point of contact, start to finish
verified makers
craft traditions
cities across India
Placeholder logos — not real clients
Teams we’ve made for
Sourced, vetted, managed
We hold the maker relationships, run the logistics and stand behind the delivery. You brief one team, not fourteen artisans.
Nothing off a catalogue
Every workshop, commission and hamper is put together for your occasion, your budget and the story you want told.
Spend that reaches the maker
Makers are paid directly and named in the work. Your CSR and gifting budget shows up in a craft cluster, not a margin.
Three ways to workwith India’s makers
Gifting & Social Impact
Curated, story-tagged, personally sourced: gifts that carry a story.
A gift that gets kept, photographed, and asked about.
Bulk Orders
Conferences, onboarding, events, hospitality, and retail.
Onboarding kits, event gifting
Festive Gifting
Diwali, New Year, client appreciation, and employee recognition.
Diwali hampers, year-end
CSR & Donations
Artisan clusters, community development, and skill-building.
CSR mandates, impact reporting
Grants & Scholarships
Support for emerging artists, craft research, and residencies.
Foundations, long-term programmes
Workshops & Experiences
Team experiences led by real makers, not another escape room.
A day your team talks about for months — and takes something home from.
Corporate Workshops
Employee engagement, retreats, offsites, wellness, and client events.
Quarterly offsites, team days
Art Therapy
Facilitated sessions for stress relief, mindfulness, and wellbeing.
Wellness weeks, HR programmes
Live Demonstrations
Conferences, launches, activations, festivals, and schools.
Booths, launches, campus events
Team-Building Retreats
Single or multi-day collaborative creative experiences.
Annual offsites, leadership weeks
Creative Projects & Collaborations
Bespoke art and content, made by hand for your brand and spaces.
A piece of work only your brand could have commissioned.
Commissioned Art
Murals, sculptures, and installations for offices, hotels, and public spaces.
New offices, lobbies, hotels
Co-branded Content
Documentaries, brand films, social campaigns, and limited editions.
Brand campaigns, festival films
Product Videos
Handmade processes, product stories, and studio tours.
Launches, D2C content
Corporate Competitions
End-to-end: design, rules, outreach, jury, voting, and awards.
Brand activations, CSR programmes
Signature to HobbyMela
A QR code on every gift, opening its whole story
Each handcrafted gift can carry a QR code that opens the maker’s story: process films, the craft tradition behind it, care instructions, related pieces, and a personal message from your organisation. A gift that keeps telling its story long after it’s opened.
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The maker
Who made it, where, and how they learned the craft
- 02
Process film
A short film of the piece being made by hand
- 03
Craft tradition
The lineage the technique belongs to
- 04
Care guide
How to keep it well for years
- 05
Your message
A note from your organisation, signed
Made by hand in Kutch
The potter who made your gift
Third-generation wheel-thrown terracotta, fired the way her grandmother fired it.
On every gift
Scan it — this one works
Placeholder case study and quotes — invented, for layout review only
Sundial Hotels
Six properties, six craft traditions, one commissioning brief
Sundial wanted the art in each new property to come from the region it stands in, not from a procurement catalogue. We mapped the craft clusters near each site, shortlisted makers, ran the sampling, and delivered and installed across six cities in one season — with a QR story page beside every piece so guests can meet the person who made it.
6
properties fitted
41
makers commissioned
1
season, end to end
We had done the usual offsite circuit for years. This was the first one where people asked when we were doing it again — and everyone went home with something they had actually made.
Four hundred Diwali hampers, every one with the maker’s story attached. Three clients called to ask where they could buy more. Our old vendor never once got that reaction.
From first briefto delivered, in four steps
- 1
Tell us the brief
Occasion, headcount, budget, timeline — even a rough one. Two minutes on the form below.
- 2
We come back with options
A shortlist of makers and formats with indicative costing, usually within two working days.
- 3
Sample and confirm
Samples where it matters, then a PO or advance against a GST invoice. Nothing starts before you sign off.
- 4
We deliver and report back
Production, QC, packing and pan-India delivery — plus who made what, for your impact reporting.
Before youask us
The things procurement always asks. If yours isn’t here, put it in the brief below and we’ll answer it directly.
Can you raise a GST invoice and work against a purchase order?
Yes. We invoice with GST from a registered entity and work against a standard PO. Our team can share the vendor-onboarding documents your procurement desk needs before you commit to anything.
What is the minimum order?
There is no fixed floor — a ten-person workshop and a two-thousand-piece hamper run are both normal for us. Handmade work does get materially better per-unit at volume, and we will tell you plainly where your quantity lands.
How much lead time do you need?
Workshops and stocked gifting can move in one to two weeks. Bespoke hampers usually want three to four. Commissioned art and films are project-timed. Festive season books out early — Diwali briefs are best placed by late summer.
Do you deliver across India?
Yes, including multi-address despatch — we can ship individually to a distributed team or in bulk to one office, and share tracking either way.
How much can we customise?
Packaging, the QR story page, a personal message, colourways and composition are all yours to shape. The craft itself we keep honest: we will not ask a maker to imitate a technique that isn’t theirs.
Who are the makers, and how are they paid?
They are verified makers on HobbyMela, named in the work you receive. They are paid directly for their work — the platform does not take its margin out of the maker’s side.
Let’s designsomething together
Tell us a little about what you have in mind. Even a two-line brief is enough to start — a person reads every one, and you’ll hear back within two working days.