Our Indian supplier, community Friendly Movement (CFM), is a social enterprise & member of IFAT and the Fair Trade Federation based in New Delhi whose mission is to creat wealth for its primary stakeholdrs-artisan communities at the bottom of the supply chain by offering quality handmade products to customers at competitive price.

Thus we are able to work directly with artisan communities and producers all over India making products ranging from shoes & handbag to homeware's, garment & gifts through one fair trade partner.

The Badhal community is a village near Jaipur that produces handmade leather goods using local veg tanned leathers.

This community has a unique weaving technique using strands of fine leather. The finishing and intricacy that they impart to a product, the way it binds the components without any stitch is not found elsewhere.

Mojari
MOJARI" is a generic name of handcrafted ethnic footwear produced in the Jaipur region of India. These are made by artisans mostly using vegetable tanned leather. The uppers are made
of one piece of leather or textile; embroidered
and embellished with brass nails, cowries' shells, mirrors, bells and ceramic beads. Even the bonding from the upper to the sole is done by cotton thread that is not only eco-friendly but enmeshes the leather fibers with great strength. Some product range also uses bright and ornate threads.

Block Printing
A block/screen printing and quilting community comprising of around 100 artisans is based in Sanganner, in the outskirts of Jaipur. The block prints of Sanganner are mostly executed on a white or off-white background, using screen printers or wooden blocks. They are colorful patterns of sunflowers, roses, geometric designs. Sanganner prints are known for their fine and intricate detailing.

Quilting is the done mainly by the women and three or four standard patterns have been in vogue for as long as anyone can remember Gol (concentric circles), phool (flowers), paan (the betel leaf) and lahariya (vertical stripes zigzagging down the face of the quilt) Two women work together on one quilt and between them they manage roughly two quilts a day, depending on the complexity of the design.

The local cottage unit Kirti Exports along with CFM provides designs inputs which the artisans convert into final products.

Kishangarh is a small place on the outskirts of Delhi where migrants from North India have settled down. These migrants are mostly poor people who have come down to Delhi in search of work. A small cottage unit Designs and Weaves in Kishangarh employing about 20 men and women from among these poor people and provides them livelihood.

CFM works closely with this cottage unit and provides them with design inputs.

Sahara Community in Delhi
Sahara is therapeutic transitional community working with people irrespective of their beliefs, economic status, literate or illiterate and the marginalized. Its aim is to make people confident, independent and free them from the systems that ensure that their lot in life will never improve. Sahara works particularly with people who face difficult situations due to substance use and HIV/AIDS.

Sahara produce handmade paper & carry out printing using natural inks & dyes.

Bhinmaal is a small town around 200 kms from Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan famous for making Jooti's. It is a traditional occupation and people get involved in Jooti making at the age of around 15 years. Jooti making is a two step process- first the women do the embroidery on the Jooti's and men do all the cutting, stitching and pasting to make the final product.

Threads of silk, nylon, leather, etc along with glass beads, sequence are finely woven by hand on the base material like leather, satin, cotton and velvet. The embroidery is done at home by the women and it provides them an additional source of income.

Locally available leather of dead buffalo, sheep, goat and ox is used. The raw leather is first washed in water mixed with local wood extracts to remove any smell. Than they are tanned with oil and dried under the sun.

Kasida is the name of the local embroidery which in done on these Jooti's. Within Kasida there are a number of variations like "Amarbel", "Chaknawale", "Chamki" and "Zari" to name a few.