Our story
Two sisters, one thread
Rera Craft began at a kitchen table, with Reshu and Dhara tying rakhis the way their family always has — by hand, with care, no two quite alike.
A thread that runs through generations
Some businesses begin with a business plan. Rera Craft began with a mother’s hands, a father’s shop, and two little girls who grew up believing that the most beautiful things in the world are made by the people who love you.
It started in our father’s shop
Our father has run a craft materials shop in India for as long as we can remember. Shelves lined with silk threads in every shade imaginable, drawers full of tiny gold beads, Kundan stones, pearl drops, wire, ribbon and findings — things most people would walk past without a second glance.
But for us, that shop was magical.
As children, Reshu and Dhara spent hours in that shop, running their fingers through threads, holding beads up to the light, listening to their father explain why this stone catches the light differently, why this thread holds a knot better, why quality in the smallest detail is what separates something ordinary from something someone will keep for years.
He never just sold materials. He understood them.
Mum showed us what to do with them
Every year, as Raksha Bandhan approached, their mother would sit the two sisters down at the kitchen table and the real magic would begin. With threads pulled from their father’s shop and hands guided by their mother’s patience, Reshu and Dhara learned to make rakhis the way their family always had — slowly, carefully, with full attention.
Not from a kit. Not from a tutorial. From watching, learning, and trying again until the knot was right, the thread was even, and the finished rakhi felt like something worth giving.
Their father would inspect each one with the same eye he used in his shop — quietly proud, occasionally suggesting a better bead, a finer thread. Their mother would wrap them in tissue and smile.
Those rakhis were never just jewellery. They were a whole year’s worth of love, tied into something small enough to wear on a wrist.
Same sisters. Two countries. One thread.
When Reshu moved to the UK, nobody expected it to change what they made together. And honestly — it didn’t.
Dhara is still in India, still sitting at that same kitchen table, still within reach of their father’s shop and everything in it. Reshu is in the UK, carrying the same tradition, the same eye for materials, and the same hands that learned to tie a rakhi properly before she learned most other things.
What began as two sisters making rakhis side by side became two sisters making rakhis across two continents — and somewhere in that distance, Rera Craft found its reason to exist.
Because Reshu could not find anything in the UK that felt like what Dhara made at home. Nothing with the right thread, the right weight, the care in the finishing. Nothing that felt like it came from someone who understood what a rakhi actually means.
So they kept making them together. Just differently now — Dhara in India, Reshu in the UK, both of them connected by voice notes, video calls, shared opinions about whether a particular gold bead is quite the right shade, and a father who still has the best materials of anyone they know.
Why everything we make is handmade to order
Because of how we grew up, we cannot make things any other way.
Our father taught us that materials matter — that the difference between a rakhi that lasts one Raksha Bandhan and one that becomes a keepsake is almost always in the quality of what it is made from. We source our silk threads, Kundan stones, gold findings and beads with the same care he brought to his shop every single day.
Our mother taught us that the making matters too. Every rakhi that leaves Rera Craft is tied by hand. No two are quite alike. We think that is a feature, not a flaw.
And both of them together taught us that the best things you can give someone are made with time, attention and love — which is why every order comes with the option to add a handwritten personal note, because a gift without words is only half a gift.
Rera Craft today
Reshu is in the UK, closer to you. Dhara is in India, closer to the materials, the craft, and the father who started all of this without knowing he had.
Between the two of them, every order is made with hands that have been making rakhis since childhood, from materials chosen with the knowledge of someone who has spent a lifetime understanding them, wrapped with the kind of care that only happens when something genuinely matters to the person making it.
The kitchen table is now two kitchen tables. The thread still connects them.
We hope it connects you too.
Reshu & Dhara
Founders, Rera Craft
Made with love across two continents — @craftbyreshu