Srikalahasti · Tirupati district · Andhra Pradesh
A 5.0-star studio in the town where kalamkari is drawn, not printed.
Srikalahasti is one of only two places in India where kalamkari is still drawn freehand with a bamboo kalam pen, dyed naturally over weeks of work. Yogeshwar Kalamkari — a women-owned handicraft studio with a perfect Google rating — is part of that living lineage: hand-made work, natural colours, phone-first business.
- 5.0★ on Google Maps
- 091825 14652 listed phone
- Women-owned as identified on the listing
Pen kalamkari · freehand bamboo-pen drawing · natural dyes · kiln-fired cloth washes · a GI-tagged craft of the Telugu country — painted in one studio, one town.
What this studio is·and what it is not
The facts, with nothing dressed up
Yogeshwar Kalamkari is registered on Google as a handicraft business at 15/951, Panagal Road, Srikalahasti (AP 517640). It holds a 5.0 rating and identifies as women-owned. It publishes 091825 14652 and runs a public WhatsApp channel — described by the studio itself as “Hand made work · Natural colours”. It publishes no website, no e-commerce catalogue and no email.
That is the honest picture: a quiet, word-of-mouth craft studio whose orders are taken by phone and whose catalogues move through messaging — the way millennia-old handicrafts have always travelled.
From the public Google Maps listing · 5.0★
The town, the tradition
Kalamkari explained →“Hand painted with a bamboo pen; dyed in madder, indigo and iron; drawn over twenty-odd steps. This is Srikalahasti’s ’kalam’ — the pen that gave the art its name.”
Srikalahasti kalamkari — a Geographical-Indication craft of Andhra Pradesh (registered April 2005)
Read the craft story