Hand-Knotted Carpets
One District One Product · Bhadohi
Bhadohi is the heart of India’s carpet belt, hand-knotting wool and silk rugs exported across the world.
- District
- Bhadohi
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Region
- North
- Category
- Textile
Why source from Bhadohi
Bhadohi anchors India's 'carpet belt', the largest hand-knotted rug-producing region in South Asia, where wool and silk carpets are knotted across a vast network of weaving villages. The cluster handles everything from traditional Persian-style designs to modern custom rugs, with washing, finishing and quality grading done on site. Its scale, design flexibility and long export experience make Bhadohi a leading source for retailers and interior brands sourcing area rugs.
Sourcing Hand-Knotted Carpets from Uttar Pradesh
Hand-Knotted Carpets is Bhadohi's designated One District One Product — India's programme to concentrate skill, infrastructure and branding behind a single flagship line per district. For a sourcing buyer that concentration is the advantage: a deep base of specialised makers, mature local supply of raw materials, and competitive pricing all sitting in one cluster.
As a Textile product, Hand-Knotted Carpets is built on loom and dye skill, so colourfastness, shrinkage and dye-lot consistency are the specifications to lock down. Bhadohi weavers usually work to made-to-order runs, and many can supply the Handloom Mark or relevant fabric-testing documentation that export buyers expect.
Hand-Knotted Carpets comes out of Bhadohi in Uttar Pradesh, part of the North region's wider export base. MadeFromIndia maps the verified clusters behind it, benchmarks landed cost against rival origins, and handles introductions, sampling and quality oversight so you can move from shortlist to first order with confidence.
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