Metal & Brassware
One District One Product · Moradabad
Moradabad, the 'Brass City', is India’s largest handicraft-export cluster, making brass, copper and alloy homeware and décor.
- District
- Moradabad
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Region
- North
- Category
- Handicraft
Why source from Moradabad
Moradabad, the 'Brass City', is India's largest handicraft-export cluster, producing brass, copper, aluminium and iron homeware and décor through a vast base of artisans and units. Its real strength is finishing breadth — antique, nickel, powder-coat, enamel and electroplated looks — letting buyers specify almost any aesthetic. This makes Moradabad the default source for metal décor, tableware, lighting and festive goods at export scale.
Sourcing Metal & Brassware from Uttar Pradesh
Metal & Brassware is Moradabad'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.
Metal & Brassware is handmade, so expect characterful variation between pieces rather than machine uniformity — that is part of the appeal. Artisan clusters around Moradabad typically accommodate flexible order sizes but need realistic lead times for hand-finishing, plus careful, protective export packing for detailed or fragile work.
Metal & Brassware comes out of Moradabad 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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