Rickshaw Revival Arts Limited
A Dhaka studio keeping two endangered Bengali crafts commercially viable: rickshaw enamel painting, whose master painters lost their trade as vinyl decals took over, and Jessore's running-stitch Nakshi Kantha embroidery. Every piece is signed by its maker. European wholesale is fulfilled from Amsterdam.
A lidded storage trunk formed from upcycled galvanised tin and painted by rickshaw artists in Dhaka's Bangshal quarter. The panels carry the same crowded, high-chroma imagery — film stars, tigers, city skylines — that once covered the back panel of every cycle rickshaw in the city. Each trunk is painted freehand without stencils, so no two are identical, and every piece is signed by its painter. Because the imagery is improvised, buyers should expect variation between units.
The spun aluminium kettle found in every roadside tea stall across Bangladesh, hand-painted in the folk idiom of Sonargaon. Floral and geometric motifs are laid on freehand in gloss enamel, with the interior deliberately left bare food-grade aluminium so nothing painted touches the tea. Sold chiefly as a decorative and display piece for homeware and museum-shop buyers, though the 1.8 L body remains fully functional on low heat.
