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.
Crochet, Chindis and a Lot of Community
Crochet isn't a traditional craft in most of rural India the way embroidery, knitting and weaving are. It arrived thr...
Hand Block & Batik Printing — An Evolving Craft
Innovating with Hand Block and Batik Printing Watch a block printer long enough and the work feels less like labor an...
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 ...