The carpt making has 1000 year history in Tibet; the carpets are mostly used as seat covers, bed covers and saddle blankets. Knots are double tied- the best carpets have 100 knots per square inch, which results in a particularly thick pile. Tibet's secret carpet ingredient is its particularly high quality sheep wool, which is hand spun and colured with natural dyes such as indigo, walnut, madder and rhubarb. Gyantse and Shigatse were the traditional centres of carpet production, although the modern industry is based almost exclusively in Tibetan exile communities in Nepal. Inlaid handicraftes are common, particularly in the form of prayer wheels, daggaers, temple horns, butter lamps and bowls, although most of what you see these days in Lhasa is made by Tibetan communities in Nepal. Nomads in particular wear stunning silver jewellery, you may also see silver flints, amulets known as "gau" and ornate knife sets and chopstick.

A secret mix ofseven different metals can be make the Tibetan singing bowls, are a meditation device that originated from pre- Buddhist "Bon" practices. The bowls produce a " disassociated" mystic hum when a playing stick is rotated around the outer edge of the bowl.

Another valued handicrate in Tibet is woodcarving, used in the production of brightly colured Tibetan furniture and window panesl.