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...

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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...

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A Healthy Future

Under the Darpan program, artisans are able to deal with subjects that affect their quality of life and come up with ...

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Beach Cleaning Day

As part of the social action program with SHARE on September 13th a total of 57 artisans from Nirmaan, Sahara, and ...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Living Our Values

For over 30 years MarketPlace has been enabling women artisans to improve their lives not just in terms of economics,...

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