Our tote bags are perfect for everyday use, plus their 100% canvas is great for the environment! Customize your tote bag with your name and message. Choose from 42 stylish designs.
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18x18 inch square pillows in Silver, Pearls, and Black Embroidery. 100% Silk.
Reversible with same color silk on back, hidden zipper and decorative welting.
Down Feather or Poly Fill inside.
ECO IMPACTAt One Thread Fair Trade, we are doing our best to minimize the effect we have on our environment.
Our products are made using hand loom silks. Hand loom weaving is tremendously better for the environment as the weaving is done by human hands and does not involve any machinery. As a result, hand loom fabrics produce ZERO energy impact and release 1 TON LESS CO2 in a year than the same job produced on a power loom. Power loom fabrics contribute large amounts of carbon emissions into our environment and one job on a power loom sucks up as much energy as 20 vacuum cleaners running all day.
Also, by using hand loom we support the rural hand loom weaving villages which are struggling to survive due to the increasing usage of power looms. Hand loom weaving uses nine times more labor than required by a power loom, thus providing many more people with a livelihood and means of survival.
Mayura wanted to use her education, privilege, and design talents to do something good for humanity, to improve the world in which we all live in. From this desire, One Thread Fair Trade was created. She works directly with the artisans not only to produce beautiful products but also to improve the confidence and self-worth of the women involved. She says she will never forget the day when she paid the women their first round of fair wages. “I walked into the workroom and was met with eyes overflowing with tears and hearts brimming with hope. My life was forever changed.” Her deep passion and commitment to women’s empowerment is the soul of the organization.
As a designer, she is inspired by patterns, whether it is the arrangement of roof tiles on a house or the veins of a maple leaf. She believes that great design must start with a pencil and paper. “There is an intangible quality that you achieve when you begin the design process with your own hand drawings, without any use of technology.”
Mayura believes the path to true happiness lies in bringing joy to the lives and hearts of others.
She holds a BA in Design/Media Arts from UCLA and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
MISSION
At One Thread Fair Trade, we believe that every one of us has a responsibility to improve the state of our global community, the state of mankind.
We work with communities of marginalized female artisans worldwide to produce beautiful hand-crafted accents for your home. Our work enables battered and impoverished women to become self-sufficient and improve the quality of life for both themselves and their children. One Thread Fair Trade is a vehicle through which individuals, like you, can positively affect the lives of poverty-stricken women thousands of miles away.
IT’S SIMPLE: Empower individuals to lift themselves out of poverty and live the life that every member of mankind deserves to live.
Together, we can change lives one thread at a time...
