Amar Handicrafts

Amar Handicrafts is located over in the Gulshan E Farid Colony on Mela Gughal Road. We are quite close to the Hina Masjid, so we hear the calls to prayer throughout the day, which gives the workday a nice kind of rhythm. This isn't a big factory with assembly lines and robots. It’s a more traditional setup where people use their hands to make things. We have piles of wood, fabric, or whatever material we’re working on at the moment scattered around the rooms. The floors are often covered in sawdust or scraps, and we clean up at the end of the day just to start it all over again the next morning. It’s a bit of a maze getting through the colony to find us, but once you’re here, it’s a pretty friendly atmosphere. We don't really do the whole corporate thing with missions and visions. We just like making things that look good and are useful for people’s homes. Some of us have been doing this for years, and you can see it in the way we handle the tools. It’s a local business, through and through. The neighbors walk by and peek in, and sometimes they stop for a chat. It’s a bit dusty and the lighting could be better, but it’s our space and we feel comfortable here. We just keep working away on our crafts and hope people like what we finish. It is quiet work for the most part.