Coasters Kantha Stitch - India

Add a splash of color with the cotton Kantha Stitch Coasters handcrafted in India with kantha stitching. The Craft Resource Center (CRC) helps small craft workshops develop into self‒sustaining businesses. CRC provides marketing, design and exporting assistance—with fair wages in safe working conditions.

Features

• Material: 100% cotton
• Care: Spot clean only
• Each coaster is 4.5" square.
• Sold in sets of 4: black, blue, grey, and white.
• Handcrafted in India

Artisan Story

Craft Resource Center (CRC) helps informally organized artisan groups to develop self-sustaining businesses. CRC seeks to develop economic self-sufficiency for a vulnerable segment of society through traditional handcrafting skills. CRC provides marketing, design, finance and exporting assistance to a large number of artisan groups across India. CRC also provides raw materials, production coordination between groups and additional training. CRC considers artisans more important than products. This concern for artisans translates into a broader commitment to help others within the CRC network. Because of CRC’s coordination of craft production between different artisan groups, artisans have a high level of connection and cooperation. Artisan groups have been able to work together in partnership in times of need. Ten Thousand Villages has purchased products from CRC since 1993.

About Us

Villages Port Colborne is located along the shore of the Niagara Peninsula. Where the Welland Canal and Lake Erie meet, in the heart of Port Colborne, we have been fair trade since 1984. We carry unique, handcrafted goods that are ethically made from artisans around the world. If you’re in the Southern Ontario area, we welcome you to visit us in-person!