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.
Behind The Garment: Parineet Shirt Dress
Every piece of MarketPlace clothing is crafted with great care. From the first step (fabric printing/dyeing) to the l...
From Practice to Innovation: The Sampler Shirt
Embroidery has long been at the heart of MarketPlace's mission. From its inception, the primary goal was to create jo...
Fashion For A Better World
Can buying beautiful clothing in America improve the lives of women in India? We know it can--as do the hundreds o...
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...