Weaving partnership at Kolkata

LSince seven years, Karawan has been involved in a partnership with an organization for local development around Kolkata. This organization regroups about two hundred manual handlooms which are spread in the homes of the villages. From spinning to weaving, most of the craftpersons are women.

Their weaving skill is ancient, this is why every home owns a handloom which is fully integrated into the daily life.

We design our collection with Shubha, a young Indian woman who has been raised in the roots and the excellence of the Indian textile tradition. She masters every steps of the process. So, she can manage the quality of our creations, preserving the weaving tradition but also being able to make it evolve in order to adapt it to the Karawan design if needed. We at Karawan are firmly focusing on co- and sustainable development, trying to resist to the massive textile industry and aiming at valorizing the high quality of hand weaving as well as the cultural value of the ways of life which are linked to these skills. In this respect, together with our partner, we search and select natural raw materials, good for mankind and the environment.