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.

Ganpathi

Ganesh Chaturthi is an important Hindu festival celebrated throughout India with great devotion. This day celebrates ...

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A Healthy Future

Under the Darpan program, artisans are able to deal with subjects that affect their quality of life and come up with ...

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Beach Cleaning Day

As part of the social action program with SHARE on September 13th a total of 57 artisans from Nirmaan, Sahara, and ...

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Behind the Scenes with MarketPlace

Take a look behind the scenes at how the fabric used for MarketPlace products is hand-printed by skilled artisans! ...

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Mehndi: Ancient Body Art

Mehndi is a form of body art that can be traced back to ancient India. Using a paste made from the powdered leaves of...

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Green Bean Vegetable

Ingredients: 2 tsp vegetable cooking oil ½ tsp whole cumin seeds ¼ kg (about ½ lb) green string beans, each be...

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Meet Mehmoda Qureshi

"I particularly enjoy seeing how a garment can be transformed by my addition of embroidery." Mehmoda Qureshi An Em...

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Meet Radha & Roopa Sharma

Radha and Roopa Sharma Sewing Artisans and now MarketPlace staff in Mumbai Succeeding in Different Ways: "I never ...

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