Oak Bazaar is an online market place where people can shop for beautiful gift items and handmade stationery from the comfort of their own homes.

Oak Bazaar currently does not have a physical store and operates mainly online and occasionally attends markets, fairs and festivals at various times throughout the year in NSW.

Check out our Events section to stay up to date.

Our unique products come from all over India and showcase a diverse range of techniques and commitment from the Indian community to create awareness of handmade paper and handicrafts.

Our products are sourced from Artisans and are not mass produced. The handmade paper industry in particular is a manual process. The main raw materials are waste cotton rags and hosiery cuttings. Products such as straw, wool, tea dust, banana fibre, flower petals, bark of shrubs are used to lend distinct textures to handmade paper. Many products are wood free.

A lot of time and love are put into making these products making them stand out from other products.

Products range from handmade paper products to handicrafts and fashion accessories.

Products include, but not limited to: Unique gift card packs, envelopes, writing paper, journals, bookmarks, brass metal products, beautiful wrapping paper, gift boxes and bags.

The handmade paper products come from all over India and showcase a diverse range of techniques and commitment from the Indian community and artisans to create awareness of handmade paper.

We will continue to explore uniquely beautiful products and provide you with a stunning shopping experience.

Most of our products are eco-friendly and made using recycled material like, elephant dung, cotton rags, recycled paper, jute, bark, banana leaves and so on.

Some of our paper is also mill made paper.

Oak Bazaar makes every practical effort to ensure that delivery time frames given are accurate (currently 4 – 5 working days) This relates to Australian deliveries.

However, the delivery times stated for products on this site assume that the stock and the delivery times are not adversely affected by unforeseen events.

We try our best to send orders as soon as payment is made – 85% of orders are dispatched the next working day they are received. The delivery times are estimates.

Customers outside of Australia can browse the website, note down your items offline and email your order to info@oakbazaar.com and we can provide you a shipping quote for International shipping.

Processing will occur offline for international orders, via email correspondence for product selection, payment and postage.

International orders are sent via Air Mail Express (Via Australia Post), which means to most locations your order should be delivered within 7-14 days.

Delivery times for international orders do vary and depends on destination.

For Australia wide customers there is a flat shipping rate of $4.95 and orders over $60.00 receive free shipping.

Currently our card range come as sets, we don’t sell single cards. You will find that the cost of our sets are often similar to the cost of a single card.

Our cards are blank inside and can be used for any occasion.

Elephant dung consists of mainly cellulose fibre – raw material from which paper is made. All that is done to the dung is it is dried, washed and disinfected to get rid of everything but the fibre and making it bacteria free. Then, the residue is boiled for four hours, beaten, dyed and converted into paper.

It is about 15 kilos of elephant dung yields, which make about 500 sheets of thin paper.

The paper is bacteria free, odour free (don’t take our word for it, smell it yourself) and eco-friendly.

Absolutely not, there is no bad odour from the paper and it is completely clean.

It’s crafty, uniquely textured and 100% recycled, but you will never guess that this paper is made from elephant poo!

Colours, if added, comprise of mostly vegetable and natural dyes. No bleach is used. The wastewater is let out into cultivated fields close by and works as a great fertilizer, the elephants are free to roam in the fields.

The colour of the paper depends entirely on what the elephant eats, which depends on what season of the year it is. An elephant’s diet is primarily vegetation. This all makes elephant dung one of the best to make paper.

The elephants live in a rural community in India and are looked after by the family that make the paper. The elephants are free to roam and are feed a vegetarian diet.