This document summarizes several traditional cottage industries in Bangladesh, including pottery, bamboo/cane products, jute goods, textiles/weaving, embroidered quilts, cool mats, ornaments, and brass/bell-metal goods. It provides details on the materials, products, artisans, production levels, and major localities for each industry. Many of these industries are family-based and located rurally, employing thousands of artisans across Bangladesh in small-scale collective work. Products include household goods, furniture, clothing, handicrafts, and more, utilizing locally available raw materials like clay, bamboo, jute, wood, and metals.

1. 1.Pottery
2. Bambao
and cane
industries
3. Jute
goods
4. Textile
and Weaving
factories
5.
Embroidered
Quilts
6. Cool Mat
7.
Ornaments

2. Pottery
 Pottery is a family and community based collective
work localised on the basis of availability of row
materials
 According to a survey conducted by BSCIC,There
were 666 pottery villages in Bangladesh, where about
76 thousand people belong to 18 thousand families
had to earn their livelihood from this traditional
occupation.
 The total capital investment in the sector was 106
million taka and goods worth 367.4 million taka was
produced during 90s period.. Most of the artisans
engaged in this industry hereditarily and most of them
belonged to the Hindu community.

3.  The people related to pottery ,known as
kumbhokar (potter or clay-modelle).
Major works:
they make dolls, statues of gods and
goddess,household goods, sculpture, tally,
flower vases, pots for offering worship, fancy
kitchen pots made of clay.
Pottery localities in BD
Bijaypur of Comilla, Madanpura of Patuakhali,
Champaknagar of Feni, Kartikpur of Shariatpur
and Royerbazar in Dhaka are the most
remarkable and leading pottery localities.

6. Bambao and cane industries:
The survey of BSCIC (1985) suggested that 122
thousand artisans were engaged in the country's 42
thousand bamboo and cane crafts making units. At
that time raw materials worth 224 million taka were
used per year to produce items worth 500 million
taka.
Major Products:
Major items of this category are cane products,
partition, mat, fishing trap, hand fan, sofa set, table-
mat, wall-mat, tray, flower vase, ash tray etc.
Localities:
They are mainly produced in Comilla, Sylhet,Chittagong
and Noakhali.

9. Jute goods:
Sika, a netted product of twisted jute ropes of
various indigenous designs and motifs, table mat,
shataranji and carpet, fancy handbag and bag of
jute are produced in four thousand cottage
industries by about eleven thousand craftsmen.
Items worth 30.4 million taka were produced per
year with the annual investment of 20 million
taka.
Major Products:
Table mat, shataranji and carpet, fancy handbag
and bag

11. Textile and Weaving
factories:
In 1978, about one million weavers, artisans and workers were
engaged in 437 thousand handlooms and pure looms of 198 thousand
weaving and textile factories of Bangladesh.
Major Products
Clothing like sharee, lungi, dhuti, muslin, jamdani, katan, malmal and
traditional handloom products of different tribes, gamcha, mosquito
nets and towels. Traditional cloths of tribal weavers, muslin, jamdani,
malmal taroyo sharee, sharees of Pabna and Tangail origin, Silk and
Khadi lengths.
Localities
Narshingdi, Roypura, Demra, Tangail, Shahjadpur, Bera, Kumarkhali,
Magura, Rajshahi, Khadimnagar, Mirgarh and Nasirnagar are very
famous places of origin of these products.

13. Embroidered Quilts
 The most famous stitch work of
Bangladesh is embroidered quilts,
known as Nakshi-Kantha.
 Thirteen different types of high quality
Nakshi-Kantha are stitched everywhere
in Bangladesh, but those of Rajshahi,
Nawabganj, Rangpur, Faridpur and
Kushtia are very special in terms of
traditional and exclusive design.

14. Cool Mat
A special type of mat made by bark of a tree
named morta. The mat, very soothing and
cool to lie upon. About 15 thousand
artisans produce cool mats of 50 million
taka per year
Localities:
Rajnagar, Balagonj, Baralekha and
Mollarbazar area of Sylhet, Sonagazi and
Raipur of Noakhali, Swarupkathi and
Neelgati of Barisal and Shatech of
Faridpur.

16. Ornaments
Ornament-making is one of the most fine
and remarkable cottage based
artisanship belonging to the mainstream
anthropological art of Bangladesh.
According to BSCIC, there are 12,250
ornament-making units and 27 thousand
professional goldsmiths in Bangladesh.
Localities:
Dhaka, Chittagong, Comilla, Sylhet and
Faridpur region.

17. Brass and bell-metal
Cottage industries producing brass and bell-
metal utensils are very much involved with
the culture and tradition of Bangladesh.
There are 390 brass and bell-metal
production units and about two thousand
highly skilled brass and bell craftsmen are in
Bangladesh. They make brass and bell-
metal goods of 333.7 million taka per year.
Localities:
Dhamrai and Savar of Dhaka, Nawabgonj,
Islampur of Jamalpur, Rangpur, Tangail and
Shariatpur.

19. Some small scale industries in
Bangladesh:
1.Food
Processing
Company
2. Rice
Farming
3. Textile and
Garment
Manufacturing
4.Open a Micro
– Finance Bank
5. Fruits
Plantation
6. Seafood and
Fish Business
7. Freight
Forwarding
Business