Handcrafted copper enamel keychains

Do you remember the shared laughter and the endless cups of chai; or the nights you spent having deep conversations under the moon; or the secrets you shared while cooking together? Presenting 'Choti Si Baat' - a celebration of love in the smallest of the memories!

This range uses Copper enameling, the ancient technique of meenakari, (Persian: میناکاری). This is the process of painting and colouring the surfaces of metals and ceramic tiles through enameling, originating in Safavid Iran. 

The EkiBeki team upskills the Meenakari artisans we work with, to use the traditional processes to create designs that are relevant and suitable to our modern lifestyles. 

Handcrafted by artisans in Western Maharashtra, India, copper enamel trinkets like keychains uses the chips leftover after making of the tambat ali/ copper vessels, thus creating a circular economy. 

Every EkiBeki piece you buy goes to support the artisans and their livelihood. It also helps to keep one family retain the ancient lore, in danger of getting lost in the mass-produced machine made times we live in.