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.

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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Anda Bhurji (Scrambled Eggs)

Ingredients: 2 tsp vegetable cooking oil 1-2 green chilli, chopped fine 1 medium sized onion, chopped fine 1 ...

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Energized, Uplifting, Transformative...

A lifelong dream came true in March when my husband and I had the opportunity to visit India. Our most important, thu...

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Empowerment Through the News

Reading a daily newspaper was simply not a part of the artisans' lives. First of all, many of the women cannot read ...

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Our Mission in Products... Hand Embroidery

Hand embroidery on MarketPlace garments is an important factor in enabling women to work and earn a living. Because t...

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Let's Talk About Respect!

Let's Talk About Respect...Living Our Values, Changing Lives R-E-S-P-E-C-T is one of the five values the women artis...

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