Meet The Makers

Why So Blue is a small business started by mother-daughter duo Jaya and Shweta to make customizable clothing available to all.

Minus Degre is a design firm that plays around with plastic waste, crafting household products, furniture and art objects. 

Rias Jaipur is an initiative to keep handmade techniques alive in a contemporary market.

Young Earthlings is a brand born with a notion to provide clean and green clothing and essentials for children right from the time they set foot on the planet.

MORAL FIBRE creates fabrics and clothing without costing the earth. 

Ekatra was started by Minakshi & Aishwarya Jhawar, a mother-daughter duo, looking for mediums to express themselves.

MANISH SAKSENA is a brand created for the love of handloom & saree as a dress form. 

Riti aims at providing an ethical solution for bags and accessories.

Kilmora is Kumaun Grameen Udyog’s (KGU) product brand. KGU works on sustainable livelihoods in rural Kumaon in the Uttarakhand Himalayas.

EcoKaari is committed to giving back to the communities where weavers and artisans live and work, to bring a meaningful positive change through empowerment programs.

"Nimmit is a Sanskrit word meaning a platform that connects people or brings people together.

SR by Sonali Raman believes in slow fashion.

The Second life started with bringing responsible waste management, design, and traditional craft together to create products from discarded newspapers using block printing techniques. 

Neev Herbal Handmade Soaps is a Social Enterprise based in the village of Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. 

The Mango Tree combines a love for sustainable design and generating livelihoods for women in rural India.

Madder Much is a women’s resort clothing brand that is inspired by the Mediterranean colors and is homegrown in India.

Sole Stories hopes to be an extension of a conscious lifestyle choice, that moves towards seeing fashion as an expression of self; as part of a greater whole rather than...

“Terra” is the Latin word for earth, extending to oneness with nature.

Sonica Sarna is an ethical designer and educator who creates limited edition slow fashion pieces using sustainable, artisanal, and fair trade materials.

Working for a cause, for a solution through ‘slow living and better fashion’ is reflected in IKRIIT’M’s work and philosophy.

Lotus Veda is all about handmade fabrics, home textiles, & sustainable clothing.

Asan is a social venture with a mission to eradicate period poverty across the world.

Flourish collections are rooted in collaboration.

"Paiwand Lagana“ is a local common phrase in India, which means to patch or repair.

Drawing inspiration from the striking beauty of Mother Nature, Tintory was born as an earthy brand that houses a range of contemporary clothes handcrafted in collaboration with nature and Indian...

PAPER WINGS is an environment-friendly product brand that endorses unique, upcycled, and sustainable products for everyday use.

Arras is an inclusive platform rooted in the culture of India while staying true to a passion for preserving the environment.

Kabbish- a brand that brings forth the craft of black pottery as jewelry to adorn oneself.

Inspired by nature and captivated by the city, Chambray & Co.

Inspired by the happy gurgling sound made by babies, the word ‘Aagghhoo’ is a joyful expression of babyhood.

TreeWear's aim is to create products that are good for people as well as the planet.

Mura Collective was started in 1998 by Kusum Tiwari and Prabha Gahtori, as a response to experiencing the lack of workplaces for women and people with special needs.

Wear Equal is India’s first upcycled intimate wear brand for women.

An interdisciplinary award-winning lifestyle design studio and enterprise committed to the development of ideas using traditional crafts.

Earthwhile makes comfortable clothing with consciously sourced plant fibers that are woven on handlooms in India.

Théla is a circular fashion and lifestyle brand. They handcraft honest, ethical fashion and home accessories by bringing together discarded plastic and traditional crafting skills. They strive to be circular...

The Fairkraft Creations brand stands for quality, safety, and great design.

RangSutra is an artisan-owned organization that was founded in 2006 with a vision to create economic opportunities for marginalized rural artisans in India.

Umang or the Mahila Umang Producer Company started as a producer company forged by SHGs.

Bun.Kar Bihar is the retail brand of Srijani Foundation launched in October 2018. The goal was to showcase the pure hand skills of rural communities of spinners, weavers, and embroidery...

Clan Earth has handcrafted completely plastic-free, cruelty-free, stylish & super-functional carry accessories such as backpacks, wallets, purses, etc.

WHE stands for Women, handcrafted & Eco-friendly. A design-driven ethical fashion brand, it was started in the year 2020 with the goal to connect the artisans to the end market. WHE...

P-TAL or the Punjabi Thathera Art Legacy is built around the belief that “Legacy is not leaving something for people; it is leaving something in people”.

Umoya is a nonprofit enterprise that specialises in Shibori, a traditional Japanese dyeing technique.

Blue Lotus is an ensemble of next generation entrepreneurs, designers, dyers, weavers, weaver organizations who are fully engaged with and proud of being associated with traditional practices of handcrafting.

Patch over Patch works to build a bridge to go from trash to trend; to bring the fabric waste back to the production cycle of garments.

Incubated by Industree Crafts Foundation, GreenKraft Pvt.

Khamir in Kachchhi means “intrinsic pride”, and that’s what they stand for.

Samoolam, meaning 'collective roots' in Sanskrit, was founded as a grassroots social movement in Gaya, Bihar (India) with the vision to use design as a powerful tool for social change....

Patrah is a slow fashion clothing brand. Vegan, eco-friendly and artisanal.

Sasha, a fair trade organization, has been working with craftspeople, artisans, and women workers for the last forty-two years. The goal is to enable and empower producer groups and communities...

Sadhna, as an idea, was born in 1988 to generate alternative income for women in and around the urban and rural areas of Udaipur. 

Art Bunker, through its Brand POTLI, offers a series of Indian art & craft kits that aim to reconnect children with traditional Indian art, thereby creating awareness and expanding markets...

Last Forest, registered in the year 2010, is a profit-hybrid institution incubated by an NGO – Keystone Foundation – that provides marketing solutions to primary producer groups and communities that...

Kubsa uses design as a catalyst for change in the handloom sector in the North Karnataka region.

In the remote valleys of the Indian Himalayas, abundant in natural resources but scarce in sustainable rural livelihood opportunities, Avani works with the rural community of Kumaon, part of the...

Kaarigar Clinic is an initiative that works towards rural development by mentoring local artisans to strategically grow their traditional craft practices into self-sustaining businesses

LUKKA CHUPPI aspires to bring colors to everyday life with its range of aesthetically appealing and quirky products. 

As a brand of artisanal elevated basics “Jayati Goenka” - is a call to just pause, untangle & value the details.

Miharu is a social venture which makes handmade brass jewelry and handloom silk dupattas from dying crafts of Bengal. 

Iro Iro upcycles silk waste procured from local textiles and market places, which would otherwise be burned as fuel or sent to the landfill.