WOMEN’S HANDICRAFT CENTRE

Enterprise with social mission

Women's Handicraft Centre (WHC) is a business enterprise committed to a social cause – enabling marginalised women to access education and earn a livelihood through respectable means.

WHC nurtures the artistic skills of marginalised women in and around Bolpur, West Bengal, India.
This is a path to ensure economic and social empowerment of the women.

Purpose of WHC:

• Building educational foundation and economic confidence in women to improve their social status.
• Achieve artistic excellence.

How?
1.      Teaching and nurturing hand-embroidery skills.
2.       Making hand embroidery a respectable and reliable means of income.
3.       Encouraging and assisting in enterprise skills through production and merchandise of hand                embroidered items.
4.       Supporting families to sustain education for children and women.

Specialisation:

• Hand-embroidery and tie-and-dye
• Adding value on hand loom fabric. Intricate hand embroidery on fabric.
• WHC specialises in artistic hand embroidery that represents folk styles from India — “Kantha”, “Gujarati” and “Kashmiri”.
• WHC also does "Baatik" (a form of tie and dye art on fabric).

Hand embroidery is done on:
1.       Dress
2.       Garment
3.       Decorative items
4.       Accessory
5.       Utility items.
Fabric used: handloom silk, cotton, polyester-cotton, “Tussar”.

Core value:

• Independence
• Continuous improvement
• Honest and thorough work

Brief background
Since 1991, WHC has paved the path to decent livelihood, education and enterprise, for many women-in-need.
WHC clients are spread all-over the world (please see photos on website).
The architect of WHC, Mrs Sunanda Mukherji.
Sunanda hails from a learned family.
She did her Masters in Botany in 1961, Calcutta University, India.

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• Loyal and repeat customers, globally.
• No appeal for donation/bequest/sponsorship.

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How can you support?
Simple. If you like it, buy it.