Empowering women with fair trade who are indulge in making Indian artform and for the customers think highly of handmade products with sustainability in their mind, We want to bring you stories that are honest and rooted in this very ethos of a green and creative heart
In its essence stitching together of old fabrics in layers in techniques by using a old kurta or saree and making into a bag or using the cloth into notebook cover. upcycle fashion is the unique and most sustainable journey for reducing wastage and empowering our whole society to create something purposeful and unique from the old garment.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Sewing the Seeds is a women’s empowerment initiative that utilises education and creativity through the enterprise of slow fashion to break the cycle of poverty for Indian women.
OUR PILLARS
1. Supporting Craft & Communities- Sewing the seeds
It is important to us that we honour our roots. We always want to uplift those who help us create our garments, so we have collaborated with ethical NGOs and similar establishments as a priority, joined hands with sewing the seeds hands with underprivileged / small but mighty communities to create. Our roots also involve Indian crafts, as these traditional systems often produce more sustainably than our modern processes.
2. Fair practices
At Threads of India We follow fair practices for our artisans and this ensures that they are free to manage their own hours without production deadlines, providing flexibility to enjoy life at a slower pace.
3. Empowering women
We partner with and support 100+ women artisan and their families and their legacy in craft. They give us the confidence to bring these products to you. Ever since we started, 2023, we have loved working with these women who use their skills to hand-weave and block printing on many of our organic cotton pieces. We first collaborated with them to create our ‘block print collection’ entirely created from engraving a design on the material, known as the block, inking the design, and then using the block as a stamp on the fabric. from the fabric they provide us, pairing up our love of all things green with a craft that is treasured and beloved here in India. From then on, they have grown with us and have been involved in almost every collection after.
4. Upcycled products
In its essence stitching together of old fabrics in layers in techniques by using a old kurta or saree and making into a bag or using the cloth into notebook cover. upcycle fashion is the unique and most sustainable journey for reducing wastage and empowering our whole society to create something purposeful and unique from the old garment.
We want to empower our whole community and small artisan who are practising these art-forms for years to create a positive and sustainable future with Threads of India.