Rural Handmade helps entrepreneurs/ Beautypreneurs focus on recipe development and sales. We help businesses with partnering up with skilled women-run cooperatives in developing countries, the core limitation where most small businesses can’t buy manageable quantities we with existing partnership get access of skilled self-help groups, corporative and small family businesses. We also help small business owners connect directly with the grass root and create necessary paperwork for ingredients such as COAs (certificates of analysis) and MSDSs (material safety data sheets).

Crochet and Lace products: a hobby, and a business! Are you a B2B wholesaler, or a retailer, or a local boutique owner or perhaps an Amazon or Etsy seller, or an independent business brand in the space of home furnishing and fashion accessory? Or are you just a conscious consumer. Whichever you are, read on to discover how a new sourcing destination in India can fit right into modern business needs and ethics- profitability, social responsibility, sustainability, poverty alleviation, and women empowerment.

Do you support a future that entails a clean and a healthy planet where consumption is complemented by an alternate, sustainable supply chain? If yes, then as a responsible wholesaler, retailer or Amazon Seller, you would love to source handmade goods from India. These products run the entire gamut in the Dining Living and Giving space and are eco-friendly and sustainable!

A literature study of how to craft products can be mordenised keeping the change of consumer demand in perspective. Under this project, we have drafted some sketches around how Handmade can supplement technology products.

A post-COVID-19 world is expected to see a lot of changes on a fundamental level on how people will carry on with their lives. Taking a lead on this, I will like to share few insights from an EPCH webinar I recently attended on the topic “Neo-Normal – a post Pandemic forecast of Handicrafts & Lifestyle Products “ conducted by the esteemed Dr. Kaustav Sengupta – Associate Professor at NIFT Chennai.  

 

The discussion revolved around considering six design themes to craft handmade products for neo consumers in a post-pandemic world which is forecasted to have a positive upturn.

The discussion revolved around considering six design themes to craft handmade products for neo consumers in a post-pandemic world which is forecasted to have a positive upturn. The six themes are:

The retail industry or what we call the brick and mortar stores were already at an inflection point with at least 15% customer base shifting towards buying on e-commerce platforms. During and post Covid-19, trend is expected to continue due to store closures and decline in spending on non-essential products.