Dolma Handicrafts

Specialties

Dolma Handicrafts specializes in women’s apparel with outstanding in quality, style, and comfort. Our unique collection offers stylish women’s clothing and accessories designed with earthy and handcrafted details. We carry rituals arts, gift items selected each on its merit collected from primarily Southeast and South Asian countries.

Meet the Business Owner

Yonten R.

Business Owner

Yonten Raza was born in Nepal where her Tibetan parents had immigrated in 1959. In 1985, when she was 18, she came to the U.S. with the help of American friends, initially living in Berkeley and working as an au pair. Her father was a small businessman in Nepal, so it was natural that she should consider starting her own business. A friend at Stanford suggested Menlo Park as a good location, so 13 years ago she opened dolma Handicrafts on Santa Cruz Avenue featuring Tibetan handicrafts that she personally selects and brings to the U.S. Later she added dolma Tibetan Carpets also on Santa Cruz Avenue.

Today Yonten has five handicraft shops — Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park and two in San Francisco — as well as a second carpet shop at the San Francisco Design Center. She plans to consolidate the two carpet shops in the new building she is having constructed at 622 Santa Cruz Avenue, a block west of El Camino Real.