An Artisan Collection
No trading office, no sourcing agent, no warehouse of finished stock bought from a market. Uthsavi cuts, joints, carves, finishes and packs in its own Jaipur workshop, with artisan partners whose families have worked this craft for generations. This page shows you exactly how, because an importer should not have to take that on faith.
Jaipur has been a woodworking city for centuries. Carving, turning, jaali work, cane weaving, skills that pass down inside families and cannot be reproduced by a machine line at any price. What the city does not have much of is suppliers who can talk to an overseas buyer in the language of moisture content, CBM, carton marking and inspection reports. Uthsavi was built to sit in both places at once.
Our carvers and weavers learned from their fathers and grandfathers. A carved headboard panel is not a CNC pattern repeated, it is cut by a person reading the grain in front of them, which is why two pieces are never mechanically identical.
Sheesham, Mango and Babul come from established regional timber markets, not from an importer’s container. Short supply lines mean we can reject a lot and re-select instead of building with whatever arrived.
Seasoning, hardware, packing and documentation are set to what your market clears, not to what sells in an Indian showroom. Those are two different specifications and we quote the export one.
This is the actual sequence on our floor. If you visit, or join a video walkthrough, this is the order you will see it in.
Logs and sawn stock are chosen by hand at the timber market. We look at grain, knots, sapwood and straightness. Anything with a crack that will open in a heated home is left behind, not planed over.
Stock is air-dried in stacks, then kiln-treated to bring moisture content to the range your market needs, typically 8–10% for centrally heated homes in the USA, UK and Europe, higher for humid coastal markets. Measured before cutting, and again before finishing.
Components are cut to the approved sample’s dimensions, in millimetres or inches as your drawing specifies. Every batch is cut against the signed-off sample, never against a previous order.
Mortise-and-tenon and dowelled joints, cut and fitted rather than screwed and filled. This is the stage that decides whether a piece survives a sea container and twenty years in a home, so it is also our first QC checkpoint.
Carved panels, jaali fronts, turned legs and posts go to artisan partners who do only that work. Depth and pattern are matched to the approved sample, and adjustable, if your market wants the detail softened or deepened.
Medallion backs, cane fronts and woven panels are hand-woven onto the frame. Weave tension is checked by hand, because a loose weave will sag in transit long before a customer sees it.
The piece is assembled complete before finishing, checked for square, wobble and drawer or door alignment, and then taken apart again where the design ships knock-down.
Progressive sanding, then stain and lacquer in a dedicated finishing area. Natural, honey, walnut, teak, dark chocolate, whitewash, distressed, matte, satin or gloss, matched against your swatch or Pantone reference and recorded so repeat orders match.
Piece-by-piece check against the approved sample, then knock-down where possible, foam and corner protection, moisture barrier, five-ply cartons, your labels and carton marking, palletised or loose-loaded for your freight mode.
Packed and marked cartons are photographed before dispatch, so what left the workshop is on record before it enters the freight chain.
Uthsavi did not start with a factory and then look for workers. It started with the craft. Ms Sonika Singh moved to Jaipur, found woodworking families making extraordinary pieces for a market that paid them very little, and built a company that sends their work to homes on the other side of the world, with their name still attached to it.
Most of India’s carved and cane furniture reaches an overseas showroom through three or four hands. The artisan is the first and the worst paid. By the time the piece is on a container, nobody can tell you who made it, and the maker has no idea where it went.
We work the other way round. Our artisan partners are long-standing units and families, each specialising in one thing: carving, turning, cane and rattan weaving, upholstery. They get year-round work rather than seasonal spikes, they are paid per piece at rates agreed before the job starts, and their work is credited.
That matters commercially, not just morally. A carver who has built the same bed for you eleven times knows your tolerances. An artisan unit with steady work does not disappear mid-order to take a better-paying job elsewhere. Continuity of people is what makes a repeat order actually match the first one.
We provide artisan photographs, craft notes, workshop footage and the story behind each technique at no cost, cleared for use in your catalogue, website, product tags and retail displays. If provenance is part of how you sell, take ours, it is real and it is documentable.
“The craft was never the problem. Getting it to the people who would value it, that was the problem worth solving.”
Ms Sonika Singh founded Uthsavi and runs it. Kolkata-born, Delhi-trained, she moved to Jaipur and found a woodworking tradition capable of making what the metros could not: real hardwood furniture, made to order, without a luxury import’s price tag.
Uthsavi is a women-led business in a trade that is almost entirely not. For buyers with supplier diversity mandates that is a reportable, documentable fact, we provide ownership and registration paperwork for vendor onboarding. For everyone else it simply means the person who decides is the person you are talking to.
A bed built for a Jaipur customer and the same bed built for a retailer in Manchester are not the same product. These are the things we change, and the reasons importers ask us to.
Kilned to 8–10% for the USA, UK and northern Europe. A piece seasoned for Indian humidity will shrink and split in a centrally heated room, this is the single most common failure in Indian furniture exports and it is entirely avoidable.
US King and Queen, UK Super King and Double, EU 160×200, built to the mattress your customer actually owns. Seat heights and table heights adjusted to local convention, not copied from an Indian drawing.
Designed to come apart for the container and for your customer’s staircase, with fittings, hardware bags and assembly instructions in your language.
Lacquers and stains named on the spec sheet so your compliance team can check them against your market’s rules before the order, not after the shipment.
Treatment, fumigation and phytosanitary certification prepared for strict-clearance markets such as Australia and New Zealand, arranged before dispatch, not scrambled at the port.
Sea, air or courier, each gets different protection. Five-ply cartons, moisture barrier, edge and corner armour, palletised or loose-loaded to your loading plan and CBM target.
Private label carton artwork, barcodes, SKU marking, care cards and country-of-origin labelling, printed here so your warehouse can receive and scan it directly.
On a container order we keep spare hardware, touch-up finish and a small stock of vulnerable components, so a transit scuff does not cost you a whole unit.
Every importer asks what our QC actually consists of. Here it is, checkpoint by checkpoint, including what we reject, because a QC list that never rejects anything is not a QC list.
| Incoming timber | Grain, knots, sapwood, straightness and moisture content. Rejected: stock with checks or shakes, live sapwood, and anything above the moisture band for the destination market. |
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| Checkpoint 1, Frame | Joint fit, squareness, dimensions against the approved sample. Rejected: loose or gapped joints, out-of-square frames, dimensional drift beyond tolerance. Corrected at this stage or the component is remade. |
| Checkpoint 2, Pre-finish | Sanding quality, carving depth and symmetry, cane tension, drawer and door alignment, hardware fit, second moisture reading. Rejected: tool marks, uneven carving, slack weave, binding drawers. |
| Checkpoint 3, Final | Finish colour and sheen against the recorded reference, coverage in recesses and undersides, stability, function of every moving part. Rejected: colour drift between pieces of the same batch, thin coverage, blotching, wobble. |
| Checkpoint 4, Packing | Component count against the packing list, hardware bags, instructions, protection at corners and edges, carton marking and labelling. Cartons photographed before dispatch. |
| Your inspection | Third-party agencies (SGS, Bureau Veritas, TÜV) or your own agent, at any checkpoint you choose. Production is scheduled around their visit and the report is shared with you. |
| In-house operations | Cutting and sizing, joinery, assembly, sanding, staining and lacquering, quality control, export packing and carton marking. |
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| Artisan partner operations | Hand carving, wood turning, jaali work, cane and rattan weaving, upholstery and buttoning, inspected by us at every handover. |
| Equipment | Sawing and planing line, mortiser and dowelling machines, spindle and lathe work, sanding stations, and a separated finishing area to keep dust out of wet coats. |
| Seasoning | Air-drying stacks plus kiln treatment, with moisture readings logged before cutting and before finishing. |
| Order sizes handled | Sample pieces, part-load trials, 20ft and 40ft container programmes, and repeat replenishment runs of proven models. |
| Production lead time | 4–6 weeks after sample approval for a standard first order; heavily carved or large programmes quoted with their own timeline. |
| Scaling a programme | Volume beyond our own floor is absorbed through partner units on our own drawings and under our own QC, disclosed to you, never quietly subcontracted. |
Everything on this page is checkable, and we would rather you checked it before you place an order than after. Three ways to do that, all of them free, none of them requiring a commitment from you.
Export desk · +91-9910971463 · info@uthsavi.com · 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM IST, Mon–Sat
Any working day. We will show you the floor mid-production, not a cleaned-up showroom, and you can talk to the people at the benches. Jaipur has an international airport and we will help with the logistics.
Forty minutes on a call, camera on the floor, at a time that works in your zone. Ask us to point the camera anywhere. If your order is already in production, we will walk you to it.
SGS, Bureau Veritas, TÜV or your own agent, at any stage you choose. Full floor access, and the report goes straight to you.
One piece, built to your spec, shipped to you. It tells you more about a workshop than any certificate can.
The export catalogue has model-wise specifications, carton and CBM data and indicative wholesale pricing. Sent within one working day.
Uthsavi is a women-led solid wood furniture manufacturer with its own workshop in Jaipur, Rajasthan, supplying importers, distributors, retailers, interior studios and hospitality buyers overseas. Production runs from timber selection and seasoning through joinery, hand carving, cane weaving, assembly, finishing and quality control to export packing and carton marking, on one floor, with specialist hand work carried out by artisan partners across Rajasthan whose output we inspect at every handover.
Jaipur is one of the last places in the world where carved and woven hardwood furniture is still made by hand at prices a retailer can build a margin on. What has historically been missing is a manufacturer who can hold that craft to export standards and answer an importer’s technical questions properly. That is the work Uthsavi does: Indian hand craftsmanship, specified, documented and packed for the market it is going to.
Buyers sourcing furniture from India carry real risk, a supplier they have not met, a floor they have not seen, materials they cannot verify. We answer that with access rather than assurances: workshop visits on any working day, live video walkthroughs on request, third-party inspection by SGS, Bureau Veritas, TÜV or your own agent at any checkpoint, and photographic records at frame, pre-finish, final and packing stage.
Hand carving, wood turning, jaali work and cane weaving are inherited skills in Rajasthan, held inside families rather than taught in schools. Uthsavi works with those artisan units directly, on agreed per-piece rates and year-round volume rather than seasonal work. That continuity is why a repeat order matches the first one, and it gives our overseas partners a provenance story they can actually document, artisan photographs, craft notes and workshop footage are provided for your catalogue and retail use at no cost.
Furniture made for export is a different specification from furniture made for the Indian market: kiln seasoning to 8–10% moisture for centrally heated homes, mattress and seat sizing to local convention, knock-down construction for containers and staircases, disclosed finishes for compliance review, biosecurity paperwork for Australia and New Zealand, and private label carton artwork, barcoding and country-of-origin marking. We quote the export specification, not the domestic one.
Visit the wholesale and export page for order terms, capabilities and the catalogue request form, or book a workshop walkthrough and see the floor for yourself before you commit to anything.
Uthsavi, solid wood furniture manufacturing workshop in Jaipur, India. Handcrafted beds, dining, seating, cabinets and storage in Sheesham, Mango and Babul hardwood, exported to the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United Arab Emirates.