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.
Meet Sadhna Vishwakarma
"My earnings have given me self-worth, importance and independence." Sadhna Vishwakarma Tailor at WARE Collective....
Meet Mehmoda Qureshi
"I particularly enjoy seeing how a garment can be transformed by my addition of embroidery." Mehmoda Qureshi An Em...
Meet Radha & Roopa Sharma
Radha and Roopa Sharma Sewing Artisans and now MarketPlace staff in Mumbai Succeeding in Different Ways: "I never ...
Energized, Uplifting, Transformative...
A lifelong dream came true in March when my husband and I had the opportunity to visit India. Our most important, thu...
Empowerment Through the News
Reading a daily newspaper was simply not a part of the artisans' lives. First of all, many of the women cannot read ...
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...
International Women's Day 2019
On March 8, I was thrilled to join in the celebration of International Women's Day in Mumbai. Women artisans from eac...