The MoonRiver Vision
MoonRiver
D 16 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024
India
Let us respect the past while looking to the future by supporting the highly skilled craftsmen and artisans of South Asia as Moon River launches its online store featuring a curated range of design objects, art and textiles
MoonRiverstore.com will be the instrument through which modern design, form and function interface with traditional skills to create an extraordinary range of object and textiles.
A partnership between modern designers and local artists produce global products that open new markets for rural artisans and give a voice to nameless artists.
The global well travelled consumer wants and inspirational and creative gifts and decorating options at accessible prices
Products with a craft input , allow consumers to learn about the crafts of the worlds, thereby creating a community and relationship within customers
The Moon River shop will provide this service and be a benchmark for contemporary craft from South Asia and India.
A curated marketplace where you buy sustainable locally made product sourced at the grass roots level
Where you do good by way of your purchase by empowering the craft and the craftsmen allowing them to preserve their legacy and their way of life
If luxury may be defined as great design, superior quality, heritage and service, then modern craft objects are truly luxury goods.... painstakingly produced by hand, using specialized knowledge, rare materials and fulfilling a contemporary function.
The nameless artist shall connect to a global audience through the story of these intense products, that hereby bringing them commercial and social benefits.
Moon River shall be the resource through which craft regains its identity but embraces the future and consumers witness its twists and turns with modernity
We aim to be a world class platform for modern craft products that use traditional skills and interface it with modern form, function and tastes.
We are vying to make not just sales but dialogues between the craftsmen and their patrons encouraging collective growth.
Visitors will have the opportunity to observe specialized skills that have been passed on from generation to generation, interact with the craftsmen and forge links with local communities. Intimate knowledge about how a block printed scarf is made, a bandhini tie die shawl is knotted shall be shared.
Visitors will be able to see the story behind each craft, its journey and its ideologies. They will meet the local artist who have been practicing their traditions in a stoic manner for centuries. They will be able to take home a product what has been ethically produced using age old techniques, unique and one of a kind .
The global consumer is now realizing the ecological price of living in an increasingly mechanized and plastic addicted world. They are more willingly now more than ever to listen and pay heed to the tales of craft.
Preliminary List of Products
Silk Scarves from the ancient city of Benares in India
Home Furnishings from Andhra Pradesh in India
Baskets from Chettinad in South India
Block Printed Textiles from Rajasthan in India
Lacquerware from Burma
Cloth Jewelry from Burma
Wooden Toys and Objects from Madhya Pradesh in India
Embroidered Kantha Shawls from Bangladesh
Embroidered Pashmina shawls by weavers from Kashmir
Indigo Pottery from Maharashtra
Hand embroidered Handspun Khadi Baby Clothing
