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Artisan Clusters & Workshops

Craft production sits somewhere on a line from a single household to a workshop of two hundred people, and the point on that line changes what a buyer can expect on capacity, consistency, lead time and compliance documentation. Cluster structure also matters: some regions are vertically complete, others depend on neighbouring villages for dyeing, firing or plating. Understanding the real production unit behind an exporter's catalogue is the core due-diligence task in this trade.

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