Threads of Community Blog

Blogs that weave together artisan stories, cultural heritage, sustainability, and customer connections, showing how each handmade piece ties people, tradition, and care into a shared global fabric.

Newspaper Reading Program

As often happens with good ideas, the Newspaper Reading Program grew in complexity and meaning, supporting the women...

Read more

Youth Outreach Program: Theater Project

Confidence, communication, critical thinking and discipline! These are the skills the artisans named as most importan...

Read more

Meet Darshana Hemade

"I look forward to coming here in the afternoon. I am able to relax, laugh and chat with everyone while doing embroid...

Read more

Meet Sherebanu Bootwala

"My life today is comfortable. But it has been a long and hard journey. After my marriage, my husband was not earning...

Read more

Conserving the Environment in Our Everyday Lives

"Conserving the environment in our everyday lives" is a long-term project under our Social Action Program. Women from...

Read more

Principles That Shape MarketPlace

I have been working with women in the slums of Mumbai for over 40 years and certain questions have grown from thi...

Read more

Meet Stella Kinni

"I love working here. Everybody is together and we share so many things. We celebrate festivals together and tease ea...

Read more

Accentuating the Positive: The Artisans Look Back

Life is slowly getting back to earlier routines, but with changes. Recently a group of artisans came together to ref...

Read more