Our Gang

Our gang has layers to it.

  • It starts at The Workshop, we have a great team who have trained up, stretching themselves and learning lots of new skills to be able to handle the day to day running of the workshop production. We have engendered an ethic of self responsibility, showing initiative and be prepared to learn new things. Team mates should and do support each other in this.
  • 80% women and a small group of men who are fully with us regarding equality and training up of team members. Very pleased with the atmosphere of the workshop. Indian village culture is all about pecking order and deferring everything to someone else up the top. A willingness to problem solve and be responsible are traits the gang have found within themselves and to be admired. Big steps.
  • expands to The Stitching Ladies who are home-based, live within a radius of approx 25 km from us in rural villages and we see them weekly.
  • Then expands all across India– we have solid on going connections to various weavers who produce our cloth.

Here are some of our Gang, we will add more photos as we remeber.

India is rather a formal place everyone gets a Sir/Madam or brother/sister/aunty attached to their name. Not only is this polite it also sorts out pecking order and caste.

Which can cause difficulties when we are all EQUAL and working together and need to be self responsible not wait, like at home for someone further up the chain to direct us.

I, Fiona am always called Madam and I have extended that to all the gang and we use Madam/Sir with everyone….all same, same maybe a little different but EQUAL in status.

Just a little thing but over the years I have seen great benefit from it and our people becoming confident to take on responsibilities and problem solving.

We work with a GREAT GANG of people.

  • Bangles are important 🙂
  • Diwali 2019
  • Rekha Madam organizes the outside stitchers our Stitching Ladies and does an excellent job.
  • Guests at Mumbai Fashion Week 2018.
  • so proud of how our gang has learnt to embrace new ideas and technology
  • Always time to have fun
  • The Stitching Ladies working on a new idea… wehave a stitch fest to get it right and then they take it home to finish
  • A birthday surprise for me thanks to the gang
  • always serious in front of camera!
  • Brijwala Madam onto a new quilt idea
  • Manju Madam…. in charge of checking and finishing then packing our products