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.
Riverbed to Fabric: A Pebble-Inspired Print
Hand block printing is one of the oldest crafts in textiles, and every region does it a little differently. Some lean...
From Temple Offerings to Cloth: The Life of a Rose Petal at Adiv
Long before a rose petal touches fabric at Adiv Pure Nature, it has already lived a small, sacred life. Every day, mo...
(RE)Crafted Sampler Shirts. From Process to Product
At MarketPlace India, we love hand embroidery. It transforms our clothing into a unique expression of the artisans wh...
The Poetry of Process: Resist & Rhythm
Hand block printing is one of the oldest and a very expressive way to bring pattern to cloth—a slow, tactile dialogue...
The Soul of Batik: Anwar Khatri’s Craft
We live in a world where clothes are so available, so abundant, that we rarely stop to think about how they’re made. ...
How Training Empowers: Creating Skill, Confidence & Craft
In much of the apparel industry, workers are expected to arrive already trained. At MarketPlace, we take a different ...
2025 Our Year in Review: Part 1
Like many small businesses, we felt the challenges of 2025 - soft markets, rising costs, tariffs, inflation. And yet,...
The Beauty of Second Chances
At MarketPlace, nothing goes to waste—not even the smallest scrap of fabric. Using chindis, the remnants left over fr...