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Our Mission

• Bring you unique eco fashion.
• Create beautiful sustainable alternatives for fashion that are vegan and organic.
• Develop sustainable and viable solutions in partnership with indigenous artisans and communities through their traditional artistry and ancestral culture.
• Respect the right of self-determination of indigenous communities, their culture and belief system.
• Promote sustainable development that protects the Amazon rainforest & its cultures.
• Practice fair trade and profit sharing with artisan associations and communities to ensure a sustainable economy for the stewards of the forests.
• Focus on the use of rainforest materials and traditional skills that the artisans have mastered.
• Develop products fully made in the Amazon rainforest and limit the sale of raw materials, to create added value and income beneficial to the artisans and their communities.
• Make products that are free of metals or other mined  minerals, with the exception of green or recycled silver and gold for designs that require metals.
• Bring authentic Amazon products to the world market.

Our Work

• Assess a community’s strengths and traditional livelihood to jointly develop a sustainable industry based on their traditional artistry.
• Set up traditionally built facilities for artisans to have a place to develop and produce their goods.
• Work with indigenous Amazon artisans to develop products and open markets that generate a sustainable economy for the communities, while protecting their culture and rainforests.
• Design and develop products based on their traditional arts and local materials.
• Train in quality and production to ensure consistency.
• Train in business and marketing to run their own businesses independently.
• Train in computer and internet.
• Supply communities with materials, laptops, internet, electricity through sustainable sources, etc., where needed and available.
• Fund production of goods.
• Connect with luxury markets and designers looking to source the artisans’ work for their collections.
• Exhibit and sell collections and traditional goods through wholesale and our online Shop.
• Pay artisans a fair wage for samples and production of goods, as well as share 50% of profits from the sale of goods (after all costs and expenses) with producing communities to use in varied ways through projects that enhance their livelihood, while maintaining their cultural identity.
• Ensure artisans and youth continue cultivating their arts and culture.
• Promote the protection of indigenous Amazon culture and the rainforest within the communities, domestically and abroad.
• Share sustainable solutions that harmonize with indigenous Amazon culture to enhance their way of life and address a community’s needs: electricity, drinking water, education, building techniques, communication technology, etc.
  
  
  

RESOURCES FACTS

• All our finished products are handmade in the Amazon with sustainable rainforest materials.
• The artisans we work with ensure that they protect their forests in order to have a continual cycle of resources by harvesting only what they need and planting when necessary.
• We use only FSC approved and/or 100% recycled and post-consumer paper resources for printed materials, including packaging and mailing.
• We use plant-based inks in all our printed materials.
• We encourage our customers to save digital copies of invoices and electronic correspondence instead of printing.
• We use plant-based clear bags to ship products to customers and wholesale accounts.
• We reuse, recycle and upcycle accordingly, and encourage our customers and accounts to do the same.
  
  
  

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