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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Bold Transformations
Sometimes it is possible to make treasure from trash. When a pattern is cut out from a length of cloth, small pieces ...