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.
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...
A Day in the Life of Darshana Hemade
Embroidery artisan at Ranphul Mahila Mandal Darshana lives in Dahisar with her husband Denesh, a rickshaw driver, ...
Hand Painting and Block Printing
India has a very long tradition of printing with hand-carved wooden blocks. While we love this technique and use it o...
Voices of the Next Generation
The Armaan Club for children was developed in collaboration with the artisans who want their sons and daughters to su...