SIRSI · BENGALURU, KARNATAKA, INDIA
Where wood becomes heritage
Hand-carved pooja mandiras, temple chariots, doors and complete wood works — from a family atelier with over 40 years of sculpturing legacy and over 25 years of excellence.
Our Heritage
A legacy you can see. A craft you can feel.
Marikamba Handicrafts is a family atelier from Sirsi, in the heart of Uttara Kannada's wood-carving country. We build the objects at the centre of worship and welcome — the mandira a home gathers around, the chariot a temple processes with, the door a family passes through every day.
25+
Years of excellence
40+
Years of sculpturing legacy
152
Works in this exhibition
Our Craft, Your Vision
Nothing here is produced. Everything is commissioned.
Each Marikamba piece begins with your purpose — a deity, a doorway, a procession, a home — and is designed, carved and finished around it.
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01
Pooja Mandira & Mantapa
A mandira is not furniture. It is the quiet centre of a home — a small temple, built with the same discipline as a large one.
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02
Temple Chariots
The temple chariot is the most demanding form in our craft — architecture, sculpture and engineering in a single moving structure.
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03
Wooden Door Carving
In Karnataka, a doorway is never just an entrance. It is the face a home shows the world, and the frame through which a family passes every day.
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04
Wooden Pallaki
The pallaki carries what a community holds most sacred — so it must be worthy of the honour.
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05
Temple & Home Wood Works
Beyond signature pieces, our atelier takes on complete wood work for temples and homes — the structural and the ornamental, together.
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06
Wooden Sculpture
Sculpture is where our forty-year legacy began — reading the grain, finding the figure, and releasing it without fighting the wood.
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07
Wooden Simhasana
A simhasana is a seat of honour — carved to elevate, to frame and to endure.
The Signature Collection
Three forms define the atelier
Pooja Mandira & Mantapa
Hand-carved sanctuaries that bridge the home and the divine — domes, pillars and toranas joined to be inherited.
View masterpieces
Temple Chariots
Processional rathas built tier upon tier to shastra-guided proportion, dry-fitted before they ever reach the temple.
Explore the ratha
Wooden Door Carving
Thresholds worth remembering — solid seasoned timber carved with lotus medallions, creepers and yali brackets.
Discover the carvingThe Process
From idea to wood
01
Conversation
Tell us what the piece must hold, face and honour. A call or a visit is enough to begin.
02
Drawing & Proportion
We draft to shastra-guided proportion and your space, and refine the design with you.
03
Timber & Seasoning
Seasoned timber is selected for the piece's grain, structure and detail.
04
Carving & Fitting
Hand carving, traditional joinery and dry-fitting at the Sirsi atelier.
05
Finish & Delivery
Hand-finished surfaces, careful packing, delivery and installation guidance.
The Atelier
A family at the bench
Sridhar Gudigar
Founder
Manjunath Gudigar
Managing Director
Ganesh Gudigar
Marketing Head
Featured Work
Recent from the bench
Follow the Craft
The chisel never really rests
Works in progress, processions, installations and quiet mornings at the bench — follow the atelier as the next piece takes shape.