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.

Resilience Redesigned: The MarketPlace Way - 3

Life was never exactly easy in the narrow lanes of the Santacruz, Mumbai slum. The coronavirus and lockdown restricti...

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Resilience Redesigned: The MarketPlace Way - 2

Life was never exactly easy in the narrow lanes of the Santa Cruz, Mumbai slum. The coronavirus and lockdown restrict...

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Resilience Redesigned: The MarketPlace Way - 1

Life was never exactly easy in the narrow lanes of the Santacruz, Mumbai slum. The coronavirus and lockdown restrict...

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Together, With You, the Artisans Will Prevail

In early April we faced such daunting obstacles that we were considering not even trying to produce a new collection ...

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Lasting Impact

(Radha, Jennifer, Amisha, Kala, Abdul, Arushi, Hasina) Almost 11 years ago, around the time I was set to graduate ...

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Power of the Human Spirit - 8

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF SHRUTI WAMBORIKAR Shruti is in charge of the community program, Education for Life. This wa...

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Power of the Human Spirit - 7

"Having a vision and actually fulfilling it are two different things. In this very difficult time our organization ha...

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Power of the Human Spirit - 6

The future of their children has always been the highest priority for the women artisans. These are women who would m...

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