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Featured Companies
 Denur Crafts is a small collective of people living in Africa
who produce beautifully crafted jewelry. This group of
craftspeople was chosen for their creativity, their ability
from work from home, and their financial needs as unemployed
mothers. The vision of Denur Crafts is to create employment
for mothers giving them an acceptable standard of living and
allowing them to send their children to school and help
support their families
Mayan Hands has been working with Mayan weavers from the
highlands of Guatemala since 1989. Mayan Hands' mission is to
assist these women in raising themselves out of poverty. By
working with fair trade, the women are ensured a modest and
regular income, enabling them to send their children to school,
improve their homes and even save a little. Selling their
hand-woven textiles at a fair price, the women are gaining
control over their lives.
Andes Gifts’ clothing is made by
skilled artisans with years of experience in the art of weaving
warm, unique, high-quality and beautiful alpaca clothing. Warm
and beautiful alpaca clothing has a lasting place in the culture
of the South American Andes. Andes Gifts practices Fair Trade
principles by respecting the rights of the artisans, protecting
the environment, building strong and lasting relationships and
ensuring that the artisans are paid a fair price for their
products.
Creative Women
cares about beautiful hand-woven
textiles and about improving women's lives. A Vermont based,
woman-owned company, Creative Women works in partnership with
textile design studios in Ethiopia, and Afghanistan to create
traditionally-inspired contemporary accessories and home
textiles.
Creative Women
works to promote equitable trading practices and to support
women's economic independence. Creative Women buys directly from
women-owned businesses, expands markets for hand-woven textiles
and pays fair prices for the products.
Green 3’s playful and fun mittens, scarves and throws are made
from pre-consumer recycled cotton in the USA. These products are
made from left-over material from apparel and upholstery
factories that would have been discarded. This recycling project
is an effort to maximize fabric utilization and minimize waste
and to make really great, peaceful products.
 Linda Marcille
creates her silk paintings on scarves by using the highest
quality steam set French dyes, the finest crepe de chine silk
and a one of a kind resist made only in New Zealand. Marcille
has taken an ancient Asian art form and infused it with her own
joyful and whimsical style in her Crow House Studio in
Brattleboro, Vermont. |
