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.
Hand Block Printing: Where Artistry Meets Textiles
The age-old practice of using intricately carved wooden blocks to print patterns onto fabric can be traced back to at...
Chindis: Redefining Fashion with Sustainable Creativity
Waste fabric scraps are inevitable in textile and garment production. When we cut lengths of fabric for a garment, th...
The Power Of Embroidery
Rinky Gupta, Embroidery Artisan at Nirmaan Collective Hand embroidery is a hallmark of the MarketPlace brand, pr...
Slow Fashion With A Purpose
MarketPlace: Handwork of India didn't set out to create a fair trade, ethically-manufactured clothing line. Our bran...
The Ancient Art of Batik Block Printing
Learn more about the ancient art of batik block printing — how artisans use traditional techniques of wax-resist dyei...
Meet Abdullah Shaikh
" People at MarketPlace believed in me and sent me for training and technical workshops, even to Delhi." Abdullah ...
Kalamkari: A Tradition Continued and Renewed
Kalamkari. Even the word, a mixture of Persian and Indian, reflects the storied past of this textile art. Kalamkari ...
An Ancient Art: Ajrak Block Printing
Ajrak is an ancient block printing art that produces uniquely wonderful fabrics. The traditional elements include nat...