One moment
Nivarika opened in 2026 in Firozabad with bangles and kangan, glassware, dinnerware and décor — each made by hand, by people who have done this most of their lives. The name is new. The hands are not.
Firozabad has been a glassmaking town since the Mughal era, and it is known across India for its bangles as much as its glassware. The skill has passed down the way most Indian craft does — not through schools, but across a workbench, from someone who already knows to someone who is about to.
We did not invent any of this. What we chose was to work with the people who still do it by hand, rather than with a machine that turns out a thousand identical pieces an hour, and to find shoppers who value the difference.
A mouth-blown glass takes one person's full attention, and some do not survive the cooling. A hand-cut pattern is scored with no guide but the eye. A bangle is set, checked and set again until it sits right on the wrist.
That is why our pieces are not the cheapest, and why we would rather tell you where the money goes than pretend the price is arbitrary. It buys somebody's time, and the years of practice standing behind it.
Everything starts at the furnace. Glass is gathered while it is still molten and shaped by breath and hand before it cools, which is why no two flutes or tumblers come out identical.
Firozabad is where much of India’s glass bangle work is done. Ours are joined, decorated and set by hand; a kangan with stonework is checked against its pair before it is allowed out.
Dinnerware and décor are looked over one piece at a time. Glass is cooled slowly so the strain does not stay in it, and anything that is not right is set aside rather than sold.
Everything on the site right now was made in the studio's first year — bangles and kangan, glassware, dinnerware and décor alike. There is no back catalogue and no warehouse behind it.
Small batches are not a line we picked for the website. They are what a handful of pairs of hands can actually make in a year.
When a piece here sells out, the next run is a decision rather than a reorder — a different batch, a slightly different colour or finish. The set you buy this year will not be exactly reproducible next year, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.
It also means you can ask us anything about a piece and get an answer from the person who watched it being made, which will not be true forever.
A faint seam where the pipe met the glass. A bangle a hair wider than its neighbour. A kundan stone set a touch off-centre. A thickness that varies across the base of a bowl. These are the fingerprints of the person who made it, and we have never seen a reason to sand them off.
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