Friendship gifting in India has its own particular energy: spontaneous, warm, often unceremonious, and deeply personal. The best friend gifts in India aren’t the ones that cost the most. They’re the ones that say this reminded me of you without needing to add anything else. At Made of Hands, every product is handcrafted by women artisans from the Himalayan foothills of Almora, Uttarakhand — and every one of them is the kind of gift that earns that sentence naturally.

There is a specific kind of person who deserves a handmade bookmark. You know them — they’re the one who always has a book on the go, who treats dog-earing a page like a minor crime, who has been using the same bus ticket as a bookmark for the last three weeks because nothing else was nearby when they had to put the book down. This post is for the people who love those people. And for the people who are those people.