Chindi—Handmade accessories using recycled yarn
Hand woven accessories made with recycled yarn by low-income craftspeople in India
Profile
I am passionate about: Sustainable design, Empowering craftspeople, Handmade
A little known fact about me is: I'm learning how to juggle!
Show my name on the attendees list for events I am attending: Yes
Location: Mumbai, MH, India
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanushrishukla/
Founder
Chindi
"Start where you are, Use what you have, Do what you can"
Research
0pt
Idea
36pt
Evaluation
1pt
Collaboration
3pt
Total
40pt
Hand woven accessories made with recycled yarn by low-income craftspeople in India
Hi Lauren Ito I have uploaded the BMC to my response above. Unfortunately I couldn't quite wrap my head around the storyboarding activity as the link doesn't have much detail on how to exactly draft this. Could you perhaps show me an example or a template? Thank you!
Hi @Clelie thanks so much for your note and warm words. To answer your questions...
I have documented all the steps in the yarn creation process on this link: https://medium.com/@tanushrishukla/textile-recycling-8561bf6d1f1e
The process from start to finish, as you rightly said, is quite long. However, we have a few advantages:
- Geetanjali Woollens is one of India's largest exporters of recycled yarn and have more then sufficient capacity to quickly meet our raw material needs
- Our partnership with CORP, which runs 20 women's centres around Mumbai, means we can quickly train and scale up our production team as needed
- The time to make each piece can also be reduced by investing in knitting machines that can be manually operated by our craftswomen to weave the fabric much faster--this is something we plan to invest in as soon as we can afford it
Having said that, a handmade product will always take longer to make than a completely machine made one, and we intend to plan our production accordingly.
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