The Shilp Guru family workshop. Carving moortis for temples, homes and commissions across India for four generations now.
PLPS Art Gallery is a direct marble moorti manufacturer in Jaipur. We've been working out of the same Chandpole Bazar workshop since 1950, when Pandit Lallu Prasad Sharma set it up. He was later honoured with the Shilp Guru title, which is about as high as government recognition goes for a master craftsman in India.
The work itself is hand carving, in whatever marble the piece calls for. Makrana most often, Vietnam and Bhainslana on request, Rajnagar or Ambaji or Italian Statuario when a client asks for something specific. Sizes go from a six-inch home idol up to a life-size temple statue. Everything is carved to order, whether it's a single moorti for a puja room or a wholesale batch for a temple trust. You talk to the manufacturer directly. There's no reseller in between.
Every marble moorti we ship out was manufactured in our own workshop by artisans on our own payroll. Seven decades of family discipline stands behind every piece — here is what that looks like in practice.
Every moorti we ship out was carved in our own workshop, by artisans on our own payroll. We don't hand pieces off to job-workers halfway through. It's slower that way sometimes, but it's the only way the finish comes out the same on every piece.
This isn't a studio that just opened up to catch the marble moorti search wave. Our workshop has been on this same street since 1950. A lot of the manufacturer names you'll find on Google above ours opened decades after we did.
Our senior artisan goes to the Makrana quarries himself and picks the blocks. He looks at the grain, hairline cracks, colour tone. Nothing gets loaded onto a truck until he signs off. Vietnam and Bhainslana marble get the same treatment.
The chisels are better now. So is the polishing wax. But the actual sequence of cuts, the way an eye is opened up, how a drapery fold gets undercut — that's all from the founder's teaching. Every apprentice on the floor still learns that first.
A single nine-inch Ganesha for someone's puja room. A hundred idols for a temple committee. Both start the same way: a conversation, a sketch, a clay model for you to look at. The bigger order doesn't get rushed just because it's bigger.
The process has not changed in seven decades — because the results have not needed improvement.
It starts with a chat. You send us reference photos, a rough sketch, or just a description of what you want. We'll ask about pose, iconography, size, where the moorti will be placed. Nothing gets carved until we're on the same page.
The stone matters as much as the carving. Our senior artisan picks the block based on grain and colour, matched to what you've commissioned. Makrana for traditional temple work. Vietnam when you need uniform white. Bhainslana if the deity calls for premium black.
For custom pieces we build a full-scale clay model first. You look it over in person, or on WhatsApp video if you're not in Jaipur, and approve the proportions before a chisel touches the marble.
The artisan starts rough and works down to detail. Depending on size and complexity this takes anywhere from 15 days to about 3 months. Nothing gets rushed. Nothing goes out to another workshop.
This is where the moorti really comes alive. Hand-polished for that soft, glass-like sheen marble is known for. A machine can't judge this step — the polish comes right when it feels right under the artisan's hand.
Reinforced wooden crating, insurance, full export documentation for orders going overseas. For deliveries inside India we use partners we've worked with for years. Nothing leaves the workshop without the senior artisan's sign-off.
A cross-section of pieces we have carved recently. Every one available for order — sizes, marble type and finish customised to what you need.
From the most-requested household deities to specialised temple installations — every category is manufactured to order in your choice of marble and size.
We manufacture moortis in every major marble variety sourced in India and abroad. If a block exists, our workshop can carve it. The three below are what most buyers ask for first — with a note on where each one fits.
Have a specific stone in mind that is not listed? Send us the name — most likely we have worked with it. Deep-dive comparisons live on the PLPS blog.
Most custom orders start with something small: a photo of a moorti you saw in a temple, a family deity your grandparents used to have, or a rough sketch. Our craftsmen take that and build a full clay model first. Once you're happy with the clay, we start on the marble.
Timelines usually run about 30 to 60 days, depending on size and detail. Life-size or unusual iconography pushes it closer to 90 or 120. Either way, you get WhatsApp photos at each major stage. That way there are no surprises when the crate arrives.
Start a Custom OrderAs a wholesale marble moorti manufacturer we supply temple committees, religious trusts, retail resellers, and interior designers. Factory-direct rates, no middlemen. There isn't a hard minimum on wholesale enquiries either. A single moorti and a hundred of them get the same artisans and the same care.
For wholesale temple sets we'll match grain and colour across the whole batch, and time delivery to your consecration or inauguration date. Regular retailer partners get repeat-order pricing and priority on the queue. Send us a written brief (deity, count, size, marble type, target date) and we'll come back with a realistic timeline and a quote.
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Pandit Lallu Prasad Sharma opened the workshop in 1950. Over the decades that followed, his work picked up recognition at the highest levels of the Indian government. The National Award for master craftsmanship. The Gold Medal from the Ministry of Textiles. And eventually the Shilp Guru title, conferred by the President of India. In the traditional-craft world that's about as close to a lifetime achievement award as it gets.
He trained his sons the same way his own teachers had trained him. His sons trained their sons. The workshop is now being run by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and every apprentice on the floor still starts out with the founder's method book.
That lineage isn't just something we put on the website. It shows up in the finished piece, in the way an eye gets opened up, or how a drapery fold sits. Once you've seen enough of them, you can tell the difference.
A few doors into the rest of the site — for buyers who want the full picture before picking up the phone.
Makrana (the Taj Mahal white), Vietnam bright white, or Bhainslana sacred black — a fourth-generation Jaipur workshop's honest guide to choosing marble for your handcrafted murti.
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Makrana marble is the traditional choice for Hindu temple moortis — its warm off-white tone and fine grain age gracefully, and it is the same stone used in the Taj Mahal. Vietnam white marble is brighter and more uniform, which suits contemporary interiors and matched sets. Bhainslana is a premium black stone from the Nagaur district of Rajasthan, used for Kali, Shani and traditional black idols.
A typical custom marble moorti takes 30 to 60 days from clay-model approval to finished piece. Life-size statues and complex iconography can run 90 to 120 days. We share WhatsApp photos at each major carving stage so you know exactly where the piece is in the process.
Yes. We regularly work from photographs — old temple deities, family idols passed down for generations, printed references, even a sketch. Our craftsmen build a full clay model based on your photo, you approve the clay, and only then does carving begin in marble.
We manufacture marble moortis from six-inch home idols up to life-size temple statues over seven feet tall. There is no standard limit — the constraint is the block itself, and Makrana quarries can supply blocks large enough for almost any commission we have taken.
Yes. We regularly export marble moortis worldwide with reinforced wooden crating, insurance, and full export documentation. Common destinations include the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and the UAE, along with temple orders across Southeast Asia.
Every PLPS marble moorti is hand-carved. Machines are only used to cut the initial rough block — every line of the face, drapery, ornament and the final polish is done by hand by fourth-generation master artisans. No moulds, no resin, no shortcuts.
Yes. We manufacture bulk marble moortis for temple committees, religious trusts, resellers, and interior designers. There is no minimum order — a single piece and a hundred pieces receive the same care. For temple sets we match grain and colour across the entire set.
Yes. Our workshop and showroom are at Paldi House, Khanjane Walon ka Rasta, in the Chandpole Bazar area of the old city — a 15-minute drive from Jaipur Junction. Please call ahead so a family member of the fourth generation can walk you through pieces in progress.
Talk directly to the manufacturer. No dealers, no middlemen in between. A quick WhatsApp message or a phone call is usually enough to get started, and someone from the fourth generation of the family will walk you through options, marble types, timelines and shipping.
