The Nepal Fair Trade Group is holding a market today in the City Hall in Kathmandu, with all members promoting sales of their products, with handicraft demonstrations across the different product ranges - from lokta paper stationary, to carpet weaving, basket weaving and a variety of cloth products using traditional methods from various parts of Nepal. I have to say that the Fair Trade Group in Nepal is very well established with a great collection of various handicraft workshops, charity groups and social initiatives, as well as a large selection of product areas - the member groups that I work with within this collective are a pleasure to work with!
The picture above shows some of the women who hand-knit jumpers and accessories at Kumbeshwar Technical School, who are quality checking various pieces that they have been working on at home. It is much easier for the women to be able to work from home, giving them flexibility to earn a living around their daily family commitments - then they come back to the workshop once they have finished their assigned pieces to check them through. So I thought this was an appropriate picture for World Fair Trade Day....
This week, I visited the KTS handknit workshop to confirm my patterns and orders for the Autumn/Winter 2011 collection, which has now been distributed to various hand-knitters to take home and work on - so the bag panels and various scarf designs are being hand-knitted in the banana yarn at this very moment!
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