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Kara
brings to you exclusively designed and woven home furnishing
fabrics and bath items. We feature these two types of fabrics:
1) Soft, gossamer thin ecru cotton with ornamental threads woven
into it.
2) Finely woven cotton towel material called thorthu, traditionally
used as an ayurvedic body-wipe fabric.
Kara is a creative venture with a social cause, born out of the
felt need to give the Kerala handloom industry a much-needed impetus.We
are a group of women who work with independent teams of weavers
across the state and small sets of rural tailors to create handmade
home furnishings of the highest finish and quality.
This first-of-its-kind attempt in Kerala hopes to bridge the gap
between this traditional weaving art form and a contemporary lifestyle.
Why
handloom?
Handloom’s unique quality is that of the yarn which is of
pure cotton variety suitable only for slow speed spinning and weaving
process. This preserves the lustre, colour-holding capacity, absorbency,
softness and durability of cotton products. It was this finesse
and feel that made Indian cotton fabric so famous in earlier times.
So yes, we at Kara are crazy about these breezy, soft, handmade
fabrics; sharing it with others is what we do best!
Happy shopping! |
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Team:
• Indu Menon (Social Scientist, Anthropologist, co-author
of Women Weavers , 1983)
• B. Sreedevi (an Expert on Kerala handloom fabric and technique)
• Suryakala Satish (Packaging and product expert)
&
• Revathy Menon (Noted Indian Film Actor/Director/Social Activist)
Our consultants:
• Lakshmi Menon (Featured Gallery Artist, Interior/Product
designer, USA)
• Chitra Gopalakrishnan (Graphic Designer, MFA ESAG France,
MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA)
Fabrication:
Our
custom-designed fabrics are woven at different Government Weaving
Co-Operative Units across Kerala. We get some of our products stitched
by Graduates of the Assisi Mount School for the Speech and Hearing
Impaired at Neerpara, Kerala. All other stitching is done by local
tailors.
For
queries, please contact us at info@karaweaves.com
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Some
pictures of the weaving, team and favourite hangouts: |
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Pre-Weaving
drying of the yarn |
Pre-loom
organization of threads |
One
of our weavers at her loom |
Team
member Revathy with one of our weavers at her loom |
Team:
Indu, SreeDevi, Revathy, Suryakala (left to right) |
Indu's
House: if you trek till here, you get a Friends' Price
bargain of our stuff! |
Updates
(watch this space for more info and features!):
• Kara in Danish, right here on this lovely blog by Anni; we love you!
• We found ourselves on Elizabeth's Flickr page, yay!
• Thanks Parvathy for featuring us on your fab blog!
• We're featured on design*sponge,
thanks Grace!! yay!
• We are featured on Rang
Décor, thank you so much Archana!!!
:)
• Thanks for writing about us on your
blog
Katy!
• Infinite
thanks to LuckyMag
for
featuring us on their list of Style
Steals
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We would like to thank Pavitra at Masala
Chai
for featuring us!
• Thank you Travelicious for the super sweet write-up & for shopping with us! |
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Thank you shopppers, for the overwhelming
response!! We're thrilled to say we have
orders from across the United States, Brazil, Australia,
Canada, Slovakia, Hong Kong and China so far :)
• Click here
to see the custom-designed Thank You cards sent out
with to first customers! |
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Our
Favourite Clicks Where
Does Chitra Live?
design*sponge
Play
Clan
Masala
Chai Online
Rang
Décor
Home
Bug
PostSecret
i--feel--random
Illum
Design
Absolutely
Beautiful Things
PingMag
BoingBoing
Imedagoze
Print & Pattern
Cranbrook
Academy of Art
On
My Desk
Farmgirl
Fare
Lily
and Scooter
Oh Joy!
Travelicious
DhalRoti
Style Files
Desire to Inspire
mocoloco
Inhabitat
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Kara Ventures: 7/604, Kulayettikara PO, Ernakulam District, Kerala 682315, India, Tel: +91 9995327661
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