A Sistra collection
Women Preserving Traditional Craft
6 projects inside
Cooperatives and archives holding the line on regional craft — from Zapotec looms in Oaxaca to Rhodope embroidery in Bulgaria.
The dossier
Craft & Making
Saheli Women
A women-led textile collective building livelihoods and bringing traditional craft back into the village economy in rural Rajasthan.
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Arts & Creative Practice
Ikuntji Artists
An Aboriginal-owned art centre founded by women in Australia's western desert, carrying Luritja stories through painting, textiles, cultural memory and contemporary design.
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Craft & Making
Corazón Verde
Eight women-led artisan organizations carrying forward ancestral craft traditions — and building a fair-trade system around the women and knowledge behind them.
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Craft & Making
Matat
A network of Indigenous women artisans building their own path from inherited craft to economic independence.
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Craft & Making
Las Mujeres del Barro Rojo
A women-led Zapotec pottery collective carrying generations of red-clay knowledge into new forms, markets and hands.
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Hospitality & Travel
Chai Lai Orchid
A jungle ecolodge and elephant sanctuary where tourism creates paid training and work for Karen women vulnerable to trafficking and exploitation.
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