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 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...

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Placement Printing

"Placement printing" is an exacting technique for positioning designs on fabric. Unlike an all-over print, placement ...

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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...

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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...

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Bold Transformations

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

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Woven Wizardry

The first clue that you're going to someplace special is a sound. Even before you're in the village you hear a myste...

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