Hands (Hands Carpets / Patodia Exports)
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- Made by
- A. Tellery (founder); Patodia family (owners from c. 1980)
- Date
- founded 1881 (as A. Tellery's business)
- Place
- Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh
- Held by
- Hands (Hands Carpets / Patodia Exports)
- Themes
- Companies & modern tufting, Global diffusion of tufting
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Research notes
Claims descent from the carpet business set up in 1881 by A. Tellery, a European entrepreneur who organised Bhadohi's weavers (Tellery's son Otto later became first president of the All India Carpet Manufacturers Association; see ner-in-colonial-bhadohi). After Independence the business was sold to a Calcutta Marwari house; the Patodia family took control around 1980 and built the Hands brand (Ravi, Apurva and Pranay Patodia). Makes hand-knotted and hand-tufted carpets; credited with a very large carpet for the Grand Mosque in Nur-Sultan (Astana). Why it matters: links the colonial founding of Bhadohi's export trade to a present-day hand-tufted exporter. Dates: 1881 consistent across company and design press; Patodia takeover "1980" vs "end of the Raj". "World's largest handmade carpet" is a company/press claim. Continuity from Tellery to Hands is asserted by the company, not independently documented. Independent sources: https://www.downtowndesign.com/news/fine-handmade-carpets-since-1881 · https://designandarchitecture.com/article/discovering-hands-144-year-living-legacy-of-craft.html · https://marwar.com/the-flying-carpet.php Research note (Oct 2026): facts taken from search-result summaries; the pages themselves weren't opened. Check the cited pages before quoting.