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.
MarketPlace Milestones
The Beginning: Sisters Pushpika Freitas and Lalita Monteiro were exposed to social work from an early age. Their moth...
Chindi Necklace
India has a long tradition of recycling used fabrics. Old saris and lungis are sewn together into quilts or cut a...
The Mohina Tunic
Traditional batik hand block printing is done with a wooden block with a hand carved pattern on one side. The block ...
The Sikkim Jacket
Hand embroidery on MarketPlace garments is an important factor in enabling women to work and earn a living. Because t...
Hand Embroidering the Patna Dress
Our mission is to work with women who are not able to find work elsewhere Hence, we have developed a number of s...
Placement Printing
"Placement printing" is an exacting technique for positioning designs on fabric. Unlike an all-over print, placement ...
A Day in the Life of Pushpa Jaiswal
An Embroidery Artisan from Sahara. Pushpa, age 52, was married when she was 15. She now lives in Mumbai with her hu...
Cheerful Chindi Bracelets
Cutting out our garments from lengths of cloth produces a lot of leftover bits and pieces. It is important to us to k...