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.
Building Independence
When the artisans were determining "values to live by" Independence was a popular choice. No surprise that it mad...
How Constraints Built Our Brand
When I started MarketPlace, I viewed myself as a social worker and simply wanted to provide women with an opportunity...
A Healthy Future
Under the Darpan program, artisans are able to deal with subjects that affect their quality of life and come up with ...
Beach Cleaning Day
As part of the social action program with SHARE on September 13th a total of 57 artisans from Nirmaan, Sahara, and ...
Our Mission in Products... Hand Embroidery
Hand embroidery on MarketPlace garments is an important factor in enabling women to work and earn a living. Because t...
Let's Talk About Respect!
Let's Talk About Respect...Living Our Values, Changing Lives R-E-S-P-E-C-T is one of the five values the women artis...
Mission by Design
Women are the soul of MarketPlace. Our mission to empower women is why we exist, and it is embedded in everything we ...
Living Our Values
For over 30 years MarketPlace has been enabling women artisans to improve their lives not just in terms of economics,...