hansiba

hansiba represents the unique inherited embroidery skills practiced by thousands of craftswomen of “Radhanpur” in Gujarat. The name of the brand is eponymous to SEWA's first and eldest artisan, Hansiba.


The brand is owned and managed by the women artisan members of SEWA Trade Facilitation Centre (STFC). All the products are hand embroidered and hand crafted, 65% of all sales go directly to the artisans, and the artisans are the shareholders and suppliers of the Company. In essence, the brand Hansiba is a fusion of the traditional and the contemporary, a medium where the rural and the urban join hands to capture the imagination of the world. In the words of an embroidery artisan, “The lives of my family hang on the thread with which I embroider.”
I want, and am very sure that all my artisan sisters want our inherited traditional work to live after them and in SEWA we can do that.We are

determined to work on our craft till our eyes stop supporting us and we stop breathing life and then our children will continue after us because we have toiled very hard establishing our own organization SEWA and our own company the SEWA Trade Facilitation Centre, which has worried for us and been with us in our days of joy and sorrow equally and supported us to re-establish ourselves and prosper.


- Kakuben Babubhai Ahir,
Artisan Shareholder, STFC