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Reasons to Say Yes to Handmade Products!

So are you caught in a dilemma weighing your choices amongst a plethora of options available in the market? Handmade products are more reliable and give customers several benefits that people never consider.

Handcrafted products are environment-friendly

As a responsible global citizen and consumer, you wouldn’t wanna add to your carbon footprint. Handmade products take much less energy and natural resource to create items than mass production. Go green by choosing handcrafted articles over mass-produced machine-made ones as their production consumes less energy. Generally made of biodegradable materials, and reduce carbon footprint. Also, sourcing locally reduces the fuel consumption involved in shipping from source to the final consumer. Handcrafted products are not just eco-friendly products that we want. They are in equal need in the modern-day world where pollution, uncontrolled use of natural resources threats are scaling new heights.

The Unmistakable “Feel Good” Factor

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This may seem like an altruistic motive, but just think about the priceless smile on a local artisan’s face when his art and labour bears fruit! The joy of encouraging someone who is struggling to keep the art forms of generations alive and trying to earn an honest living out of it is unmatched. Not only the seller even buying handmade products from local businesses makes buyers feel awesome. There is feel good factor in supporting local artisans and their eco-friendly business practices. Buying handmade products can also increase jobs and strengthen Indian economy.

Unmatched Superior Quality

The magic of the human hand cannot be matched with the most superior, cutting edge technological devices. This is a very true saying that whenever the work is done by hand. It consumes less energy than the mass production assembly line, making handmade products more sustainable. Ever felt a world of a difference between a hand-brewed cup of latte over a machine brewed one? There it is, amigos! Similarly, an artisan puts in a lot of effort and bespoke touches in the process of curating handmade articles. Each item is a creation of love and skill. The abilities imaginations and thoughts create an artisan uses; they imagine every piece they create.

Contributes to the growth of the local community & economy

Whenever you choose any handmade décor piece or household use item over machine-made, mass-produced ones, you silently encourage talented albeit unheard artisans earn a livelihood out of their craft and slowly. But surely expand their horizons and gain global recognition as well. Knowing that your money is going towards a local company is invaluable, these locally owned independent businesses create a custom experience that big chain can’t provide and personalize their own colors and designs that fits customers needs. If products are made locally and they aren’t shipped overseas. Then the energy used to create them and deliver it to the customers is further reduced. We know supporting local artisan is good but it has an amazing benefit to support the traditional art forms.

Technologies may replace skilled workers with machines but it’s always good to rely on human feelings and hands instead of machines. Check the beautiful decor items to decorate your home or office with the awesome collections online. Handicrafts make the best corporate gifts, even people love to find handcrafted products as their housewarming gifts.

Ingenuity & Realistic beauty in every piece you own

You can be assured of the toils, creative epiphanies of a human hand and mind entrenched in every piece of handmade goodness that you own. Listen to the story that each item has to tell. Biggest reason people prefer hand crafted products because each one of them is unique in its own way. The nature of hand made products is that there are fewer of them.

Unique, Bespoke, Quirky & Trendy

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Artisans, designers are more likely to rope in the current trends to make funky as well as practical products. That are in sync with the times whilst preserving their original flavour in comparison to large business houses. There is always scope for a more personal touch. In the product that matches your vibe and is truly one of a kind! So the chances of someone else owning. The same piece with its characteristic intricacies, details and quirks are pretty much close to zilch!

Keeps alive the art forms of centuries

In the era of mechanistic consumables, it is important to encourage the last few forbearers of art & culture alive.  And to send the message that keeping the tradition up and alive is an economically feasible activity as well! By supporting these people who are skilled craftsman and women. We are helping them to practice skills that are integral to our cultural identity. This will help the upcoming generation to look back at the past art forms in the world.

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Game of Thrones Viking Horn Mugs

Viking society have a special place in Norse culture. They were highly respected, and they were entrusted with brewing ale for their family’s consumption! Essentially, it was up to them whether or not you got your daily dose of beer. By cooking food and brewing this delicious beverage, these Nordic ladies had all sorts of control over her home life. In addition to making sure that everyone drank enough water each day (and enjoyed some flavor!), there is evidence suggesting. That many brewers would also sell small portions as well – especially if she needed money on occasion!

As long as they had some mead, ale and beer, To keep them alive during their lengthy journeys at sea, the Vikings were all set. Fermented beverages are an easy way for raiding warriors like these guys on board a ship. To stay hydrated without having to stop every now and then for fresh water.

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Why should beer or mead be drunk from authentic Viking beer horns...and not from beer mugs?

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Not only is beer served in beer mugs, beer glasses, or beer steins, beer can also be drunk directly out of a traditional. Viking drinking horn or mead cup made from 100% real bovine ox horn material. I’ve seen people using Viking drinking horns as every day glasses and they seemed to like it – a lot! Hence the reason I began working at AleHorn. It’s really not about drinking from a horn, but having the fantasy feeling of drinking like a menacing Viking from the 790s.

THE STORY OF BEER AND MEAD IN VIKING

It quenched the thirst after the salty Viking food had been eaten. The Vikings drank strong beer at festive occasions, together with the popular drink of mead. Mead was a sweet, fermented drink made from honey, water and spices.

Viking Horn V/s Drinking Mugs

Viking Horn Mugs

The horn mugs are uniquely made in a traditional manner by steaming, shaping, and bending over the handles to make this stylish creation. This creative innovation for horn mugs stems back to the 18th century, where our mugs are handmade in a traditional horn factory in England. The Viking Dragon proudly continues the tradition by offering these classic horn mugs that impressed the producers of shows like ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Vikings’, and other semi-historical films to use them on set. In fact The Viking Dragon supplied 600 of these horn mugs to the production company of ‘Game of Thrones’. The Viking Dragon continues to supply these original horn mugs that are the same ones supplied to Game of Thrones for their feasting gear in the series. 

THE DRINKING HORN IN NORSE CULTURE

The relationship between the drinking horn and the afterlife is a less know connection. But it brings us to what is likely the most popular version of the drinking horn as we know it today. The drinking horn of the Vikings! And somehow, despite not being made of gold, or garnished with jewels, or crafted with legs and caps like some of the adaptations made by the early Christian church during that time. The Viking drinking horns are the ones we all imagine when the image is called to mind.

In Viking culture, drinking horns were a popular vessel for beer, wine, and of course mead, but unlike other cultures, like I mentioned before. They were not the gilded trophies of kings. They weren’t used in the symbolic burial of great warriors either. For the living, drinking horns were just cups, but as the traditions of the Norse people grew more vivid, possibly due to their interactions with the Greeks and Iron Celts, or possibly due to their isolation, the mysticism around mead and the horns that held it grew stronger as well.

VIKING BOOZE & MEAD MAGIC

Alcohol has been no stranger to any people of any age. At some point everyone either discovered fermentation by accident. Maybe by letting their gain barrels get filled with rainwater, or alcohol was introduced to them by an outside culture. Either way, we have been finding unique ways to brew alcohol. Since long before anyone can even remember. The earliest written recipe for beer has been credited to the Sumerians. It was found embedded in a poem written nearly 3,900 years ago. But while countries like China may have archeological evidence to prove that. They had been brewing beer for at least the last 5,000 years, it is the Norse. Who are credited with one of the most innovative methods of fermentation; the fermentation of honey.

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