Traditional textiles are back!
A new fair trade company, based in Gig Harbor, Washington is now importing fair trade textiles from India. Keeping up with traditional block printing techniques found in the western state of Rajisthan, India, near the Pakistani border.
Owner, Nikki Davidson, is helping fill a niche which has left our Pacific Northwest markets with very few, if any textiles…thanks to Jubilee traders fair trader consumers will have access to fantastic, brilliant patterns and colors of textiles created by fairly paid, Indian artisans!!
The art of hand-block printing has existed in Jaipur for generations and many of our artisans originally belonged to the traditional “chippa” or hand block printing caste.
The whole process, from printing to dyeing, is executed manually in small workshops and micro-enterprises. Proceeds from the sale of these linens directly support the livelihood of the artisans and their families.
To view more textiles, visit Ten Thousand Villages-Portland store or visit them Jubilee Online.
admin @ June 4, 2008