अर्थ Mala
Art that Heals. Patterns that Speak.
A boutique studio preserving four living Indian crafts: Lipan art, mandala, embroidery and crochet. Every piece made by hand, on commission.
Lipan art, mandala, embroidery and crochet are living crafts, not heritage exhibits, but the commission market for them runs on direct messages and screenshots, which caps how far a maker can reach.
Arthmala gives the studio a proper front of house: a catalogue that shows the work at the resolution it deserves, and a commission flow that captures a brief without a dozen back-and-forth messages.
It is a deliberately small, well-built stack. A Vue 3 front end on Vite, an Express and MongoDB back end, deployed to Vercel as a single unified application with the API running as serverless functions alongside the static client.
What it does
Four living crafts
Lipan art, mandala, embroidery and crochet, each with its own catalogue treatment rather than a single flattened product grid.
Commission-first
Pieces are made to order, so the flow is built around capturing a brief, not around a checkout.
One deployable unit
Client and API ship together to Vercel: the Express app wrapped as a serverless function, the Vue build served statically, one repository, one deploy.