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MEGASTORES

Everything Handmade

Megastore is an online marketplace, a platform where the customers can search from a plethora of available options. We specialize in authentic handicraft products where artisans and producers can sell directly to customers. Megastores have come up with some incredible initiative to step into the leading e-commerce market. Being customer-centric we have developed a platform for encouraging and empowering our producers and customers. It has provided the customers with a feature where they can shop directly from the craftsmen.

Impact

450+

Artisans, Entrepreneurs Engaged

12+

Social Economic Collaboration

50+

Crafts Available

5000+

Average Additional Income Per Artisan

11000+

Handmade Products

1300+

Livelihood Supported

500+

Artisians Trained

100000+

Impressions

Craft is not a luxury, but a necessity for the human spirit, enriching our lives and bringing us closer to the things that truly matter.

~Kailash Gajara

Features

Augmented Reality Support

Online Payment

Authentic Craft Products

24/7 Customer Support

Quality Management Assurance

Who Are We

Megastores.com provides a unique opportunity for artisans to sell their amazing handmade products worldwide. Helps them create their brand and avail a fair price for the products.

The Handloom sector is the 2nd largest employer after agriculture. Handicrafts remind us about our culture and heritage. It is important to save crafts from getting extinct to keep our cultural legacy intact. Megastores' team visits artisans from rural areas. The team onboards artisans on the marketplace, provides training, helps with product photography, and also promotes them on social media. A complete hand-holding approach is used to ease the entire process for artisans.

Megastores’ aims at bringing together all the stakeholders from the craft sector on one single platform so that it can lead to the collective development of the community as a whole. Every purchase on Megastores assures the conservation of craft. We ensure high quality beautiful handmade products offer customers a delight and in turn, help artisans in their journey toward being successful craft entrepreneurs.

Comprehensive E-commerce Services

Social Network for Artisans & Brands

Specially crafted focused network for Artisans & Brands
Single Platform for all the Stakeholders from the Craft sector
Fostering Community Conversations
Promoting inter craft trades

Video Commerce

Live video streaming at a convenience
Assuring product authenticity
Better customer engagement with conversions
Stronger brand building with customer retention

Training for Artisans & Brands

Basics of Digital Marketing
Use of digital tools, seller dashboard, and apps
Product pricing, demand, and sales
Product photography and design development

Digital Branding

Branding along with social media promotions
Dedicated web page with Artisan name/ brand URL
Includes Artisan/ Brand products, stories, videos, and craft documentation
Photo Editing and Content writing - Product Title, Description, and specifications

Online & Offline Exhibitions

The Phygital model facilitates both online & offline exhibitions
Online Payment gateways along with POS result in smooth transactions
Direct interaction with Customers helps build Trust
Enhances Artisan’s marketing skills

Craft forms the heart and soul of our Home, infusing it with warmth, character, and a unique sense of belonging.

~Kailash Gajara

Megastores Guiding Stars

Dr Pallavi Tak

AVP, CIIE.CO

Creating a business model for a craft start-up, demands you to be Original & Indigenous. That is THE opportunity.

Shefali Vaidya

Writer, Columnist, Media personality

Handmade products are the original #makeinindia products. Indian arts and crafts were prized all over the world for thousands of years. It is time to reclaim our heritage.

Belaa Sanghvi

CEO/Designer @ Belaa Sanghvi Designs

I believe in organic growth that is not forced. Create pieces of Textiles or Handicrafts of such high quality & Designs, that it becomes irresistible. Make it more relevant to lifestyle today. But skills rooted in the past. It's the whole ecosystem that needs revamping. An Amalgamation of Traditions & Trends.

Kishor Bhadra

Trustee, VRDI

Yes, struggle here is quite real. But I believe sustainable handmade has a vast scope. We just need to be ethical, stick to our roots & take this forward.

Chintan Bakshi

Partner, Incubation @ CIIE.CO

The vast network of Indian artisans, craftsmen, weavers, spinners etc offers a highly distributed, well trained, unique and diverse manufacturing base of creative makers that have the potential to offer mass customization to customers across the globe by working with sustainable and green production processes and materials.

Jaya Jaitly

Founder, Dastakari Haat Samiti

I strongly believe in the beautiful values of life expressed through our arts and cultural heritage. Preserving and promoting all of that and making the skilled artisan hold their heads up high, is for me a call of duty.

Ritika Gandhi

Sr Manager and Vertical Lead, CSR, Titan Company Limited.

To be able to spot an area of intervention that makes a significant difference for craftspeople is the key to designing sensible initiatives.

Sarika Narayan

Business Consultant with craft enterprises and artisan groups

Artisan groups must be encouraged to develop their own dynamic, progressive, value oriented business organisations. So that craftspeople have greater if not full control over their cultural property, their creativity, resources and in general, their work, their destiny.

Maya Sriram

Associate Member, Paramparik Karigar

Our traditional arts have historically been environment-friendly and relevant climatically and geographically. When we support our traditional crafts we protect both nature and the livelihoods of these hugely talented karigars.

Prof.(Dr) Toolika Gupta

Director, Indian Institute of Crafts and Design (IICD)

The vision is to invigorate the Craft sector, by encouraging research, creative expression, market linkages, problem solving and technology enhancement for bringing new life to crafts sector.

Meenakshi Singh

Professor, Indian Institute of Crafts and Design (IICD)

Hand-crafted' holds a deep meaning for our country, it was and still is it's very soul; has the potential of making 'Bharat' a 'Sone ki Chidiya' again if each Indian becomes a user of handcrafted. Wake up India !

Ankit Saxena

Senior Manager, Foundation for Innovation & Research in Science & Technology, IIT Kanpur

Creating an innovative ecosystem with and for the artisans from the bottom of pyramid would be the true essence of Indian culture. And any effort in this direction would only be progressive for the nation at large.

Dr Ela Dedhia

Academician, Consultant - Textile, Fashion, Craft

Indian Handcrafted Handmade Textiles and other utility and aesthetic products have deep significance of the culture and values of the real India. Handmade production processes lead the artisans towards inward harmonious journey of self, and promote harmony within communities/ society and nature. If we desire a sustainable and peaceful world, then promoting the production and consumption practices of handmade products and processes is the solution.

Siddharth Gadhvi

SDM and Deputy collector, Rajkot city

Handicrafts sector serves multiple purposes. It caters to aspirational values of all artisans and addresses livelihood security of artisans. Handicrafts sector require developmental intervention among center government, State government and NGO working in this sector. All relevant stakeholders has to work together to leverage technology and market for the betterment of Handicrafts sector.

Payal Nath

Co-founder of Kadam & Kadam haat

Building a sustainable business in rural crafts is needed - to provide stable incomes to HIU with total financial transparency and partnership beyond just buying & selling for success of the SDG’s. In 1947, india had 700000 villages , now also almost 60,000 still exist. Businesses in handmade sector need to think beyond products or services - it’s A way of life “good for people , good for planet “ we all promote.

Jaideep Mehta

Managing Director, Karigar Weaves Pvt. Ltd

Honour the Artisan. Keep it homegrown. Make the marketplace your playground. That, is the business of Craft.

Geeta Castelino

Educationist, Advisor for Artisans, NGOs, Corporates, Executive Committee Member of KalaGhoda Association

I Believe and Value Indian Cultural Heritage. By promoting Artisans we Protect our Environment as well as Support their Livelihood. When we Buy Handmade we Support A Dream. To make the Artisan live with Dignity and Pride and Indian Arts & Crafts to be recognised Globally, we must promote our craftsmen. Our Design schools must create awareness among students of our rich culture through Research, Design Development, Marketing Skills & Effective Communication.

Our Team

We, the team of developers, Designers, Marketers, and problem solvers aim to redefine e-commerce such that it becomes a positively self-driven social marketplace for artisans and brands. We are seeking to enable artisans to turn their craft work into business and bring all the stakeholders from the Handmade community together through e-commerce.

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ARTISAN STORIES

Shivji Buda Fotindi | The Boat Model Maker - Mandvi

Shivji Buda Fotindi – A Scion of Yester Years' Kutchi Seafarers. He is more than a captain, and perhaps one among few in the country, who has excelled in the art of boat model making. Fotindi's career began at the age of 12, when he was recruited in a ship sailing for Muscat and Africa. He has crafted more than one thousand models of varying sizes ranging from a palm sized fishing trawler to dinghy sized 10 – footers. His boats are displayed and bought all over, from the United States to Japan and from Indian naval establishment to Hotel Marina Plaza in Mumbai. Today he is busy training his two teenaged grandchildren Jigar and Chetan to keep alive the craft of boat making.

Vadha Jenti Vekya | Wooden Lacquer Work - Nirona

Lac, a material taken from insect resin, has been used in Indian craft for centuries. Coloured lacquer is applied to wood by heat through turning with a hand lathe. In the process, the artisan maneuvers the lacquered colors to create patterns by hand in kaleidoscopic designs. This form of lacquered patterning is found only in Kachchh.

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Vankar Vishram Valji Bapa | Weaving Art - Bhujodis

Master Craftsman vankar shamji vishram oversees a multigenerational weaving and dyeing business in Kutch. A simple shawl that involves only weaving can take about two days to create and at least 5-6 shawls of the same model will be weaved each time, making a minimum weaving stint last for at least 10 to 12 days. Shawls with intricate designs can take months on end. It was one such magnificently patterned Dhablo or shawl that Vishram Valji, Ramji's father worked on for an entire year that won him the President's award in 1974. It is the Ahir dhablo that was the design inspiration behind Vishram Valji's award winning piece.

Abdul Gaffur Khatri | Rogan Art - Nirona

The traditional rogan art by National Award Winner (1997) Shri Amdulgafur D. Khatri is unique art from village Nirona. Traditional rogan art is a style of fabric painting which is inspired from Persian art. The rogan painting craft has more than 400 years of its history. Hand pounded castor oil is turned into a paste by boiling it. Later color powder diluted in water is mixed with the castor oil pastes to create 3D like texture. Generally geometrical motifs are preferred and some time floral motifs are also adopted. Master craft artisan Abdul gafur khatri national award winner craftsmen and his family of nirona are only people left to practice this well known and vintage art form in the Kutch.

Anchal Bijlani | Leather Art - Sumrasar

Anchal P. Bijlani from Sumrasar is leather art and handicrafts expert. He makes products like Purse, Belt, Mojdi, Bakal Champal, Bag, Mobile Cover and all types of leather art work.