LAMTAPUT
BAMBOO FACTORY

Saleb, one of our young artisans, applies a coat of finish on a toy car. This is not your regular industry where every product is the same. The product's finish is defined by his meticulous hand-work, and each contour is shaped by his chisels. Not mass-produced, not die-cast, not machine made, each piece is unique, just like the bamboo it came from and the artisan who made it! Hand-made and hand-finished, each toy is worth many hours of painstaking work! Artisanal work is gro

The spider and the bamboo. Going back from work late one evening, I came across a large spider perched on the folds of a fresh bamboo shoot. A new thought struck my mind. Something we take for granted, but something so important- habitat. The observations do not stop there. A Brown Boobook (Brown hawk owl) that roosts regularly in the same place in the bamboo grove, the Paradise flycatcher that hawks for insects in the bamboo, the Black-naped Monarch that raises its brood in

Global warming, microplastics in food, climate change... enough reasons to go for the most sustainable, green materials we can find. But...

It is August, and for Lamtaput that means the monsoon season. It is wet everywhere. For the bamboo plants, this is the signal to put...

The lathe is a very useful machine tool. But it needs months of learning of the machine, its tools and also the wood. We have been helped...

In a dry, climate-controlled room, under the warm glow of Infra red lights, Budhu give the finishing touch to a product. Our products...

We do this to provide employment for the local people, including students who have dropped out due to the pandemic. Our workplace is...

How does a round tubular bamboo material lend itself to toy making? This question was running on Jalandhara's mind (pictured below) when...

Bamboo is excellent material for making handicrafts, its plantation is easier to work with than other trees, and it is has a variety of...