Natural fiber, hand made textile collections, designed garments, soft furnishings, and rugs manufacturer, importer and distributor. Our company specializes in textiles, hand made in India and Bangladesh by wonderfully skilled crafts people to a very high quality. We are a fair trade company producing two main fashion collections annually (Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter) along with several satellite collections usually with something extra special about them such as our Tussah silk collection or Organic cotton range. We also have a constantly updated Interiors collection which follows no set seasons, it simply grows and changes as and when inspiration dictates! To compliment both of these departments we have a range of accessories and jewellery. Established in 1978, market in Delhi. Today the company is still based firmly in the south west with our HQ housing the design facility, administration and central warehouse in deepest beautiful Devon. We now have 7 branches and a well-established wholesale business.
Environmental, fair trade and ethical issues are as fundamentally important to our company today as they were when the company first started up in 1978. We are members of BAFTS (The British Association for Fair Trade Shops) both as Importers of Fairly Traded goods and as retailers of Fairly Traded goods. A large proportion of our suppliers are known personally to us; they are generally either small, family businesses or cottage industry based. If we take on a new partner we use our own common sense: how well does this person treat his employees? What sort of conditions prevails around the business as a whole? do we feel reassured of the personal integrity of the Principals of the company? Do they seem to be fundamentally decent folk? If we have doubts about any of these issues we simply do not deal with the company. We are always seeking ways to improve the methods and circumstances under which our goods are produced. Invariably this is based on a consensus between us as a company, our facilitator in situ, and the individual worker. Quality of working conditions and quality of product is always our main priority over and above price - if an item is hand made by skilled people they should be paid a fair price for their work.