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.
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