Beaded Keychain - Channapatna

Style up the way you hold your keys with this exclusive Beaded Keychain Channapatna from goroots. Handcrafted with great diligence and fine perfection, this Channapatna product is one that will not only provide you with great utility but amazing style as well. This keychain stands apart from the others for it has a beautiful designed to accompany it with. It is funky as well as colourful piece of charm.
Keychains are the most important product of Channapatna craft. An artisan would shape the keychain just the way he wants or give it a design that he thinks is the best apt.
This keychain is made from ivory softwood and the colours used are vegetable dyes making the product wholly safe and chemical-free.

About Channapatna Art

The products manufactured in the Channapatna or the toy-town of Karnataka are popularly known as Channapatna utilities. It is a proper particular form of art practised in the southern state and is been preserved as a geographical indication (GI) under the norms of the World Trade Organization.
A typical type of wood from the Wrightia Tinctoria tree, also known as Aale Mara or ivory wood, is used in the making of the Channapatna toys. This wood is light in weight and closely grained so that it is easy to work with. It is easy to cut, process and finish and the artisans can find the wood in abundance as the tree is abundantly found in the geographical area.

Right from procuring the wood to its pruning, seasoning and colouring, the expert Channapatna craftsmen use handicraft skills that are pure, crude and raw. Final polishing of the product and the dyeing is done using naturally found colours or vegetable dyes based on the likes and preferences of the artisans.

The Channapatna toy industry is in great demand today. Although, a decade ago it faced an intense competition from the Chinese market, Channapatna toy industry is now back on its feet and enjoying great reception worldwide. Most of the products are exported to USA, UK and Europe.