Padmavathi Handicrafts

Padmavathi Handicrafts is located at House No 9-10-39 on Maddipatlavari Street, in the World Exise area. It’s a street that feels mostly residential but has a lot of small businesses tucked away in the different buildings. Our house is where everything actually happens. It’s not a big factory or a shop with a shiny glass front. It’s a real place where we sit and work on the handicrafts every single day. The street outside can be quite narrow at times, so when a big vehicle comes through, everyone has to move out of the way. We’ve been working out of this house for a long time now. It usually smells like the different materials we use and there’s often a bit of a mess on the floor, but that’s how you know work is actually getting done. We don't have any big corporate structure or anything like that. It’s just a few of us making things by hand. The neighbors on Maddipatlavari Street are very used to the noise and the people coming and going throughout the day. We don't use any fancy marketing tricks or advertisements. We just show what we’ve made to whoever happens to stop by the house. The World Exise area is a bit of a hub for this kind of manual work, so we feel right at home here. Some days we work late into the night when we have a lot to finish. It’s a simple life.