The history of Sri Lanka handicrafts runs to pre-history and its production with the exception of Jewellery is essentially a cottage industry: products are turned out making use of natural raw materials by means of time tested age-old techniques. The traditional skills have been preserved with its purity, resulting in the continuance of characteristic identity of Sri Lanka Handicrafts. Sri Lanka’s ancient social system having its Indo-Aryan roots has been largely instrumental in preserving traditional skills with its characteristic identity; certain arts and crafts were assigned to defined socio-occupational groups. Sri Lanka’s wide variety of very attractive handicrafts can be found throughout the Island in shops, street stalls and government-run stores. Ivory and tortoise shell handicrafts once sold at large are no longer legal in Sri Lanka.