The Dhokra method is older than most countries. Craftspeople of the Indus Valley were casting metal with the lost-wax technique more than four thousand years ago, and in the forests of Bastar and eastern India the same communities cast it the same way today.
The process is unforgiving and beautiful. A core of clay is wrapped in fine threads of beeswax, then coated in more clay. When the mould is fired, the wax melts and runs out, and molten brass takes its place. The mould must then be broken to release the piece, which means every single Dhokra object is cast exactly once and can never be repeated.
That is why no two Dhokra owls are identical, and why they carry that distinctive thread-like surface. You are not buying a product off a line. You are keeping a four-thousand-year-old story alive on your shelf.