Setting the shelf…
Our story
The tool of hand-made food.
A silbatta is the flat grinding stone and muller found in every traditional Indian kitchen. Nothing about it is fast. Nothing about it is automatic. It only works with a woman's hands, her time, and her judgement.
That is our name and our promise in one object: the tool of hand-made food, and the labour of the women who use it.
Silbatta is a self-help group. Urban and village women make achaar, papad, wadi and sevai entirely by hand — sun-cured, hand-dropped, hand-rolled — and the collective turns that skill into income, dignity and independence.
हाथ से बना। दिल से बनाया।
The old way
No machines. No shortcuts. No hurry.
पीसनाGround on stone
Whole spices, ground on stone, not machine-milled.
धूपCured in open sun
Jars and wadi rest in open sun for days, not hours.
हाथShaped by hand
Every wadi dropped, every sevai strand rolled by hand.
भरनाPacked by her
Small batches, packed by the woman who made them.
The hands
Every jar has a name behind it.
We are not a factory brand pretending to be homemade. We are homemade, organised. The women of Silbatta come from villages and from city homes; some grind, some sun-cure, some roll, some pack — and every rupee of profit is shared.
What you buy here is provenance and labour. Every surface of this site should answer one question: whose hands made this, and how?
“Pehli baar apni kamai se Diwali manayi.”
“The first time, I celebrated Diwali on my own earnings.”
Portraits of the collective will appear here with each member's written consent — until then, the work speaks.