Floral Diary with Camel Motif Handmade by Women Artisans (100 pages)
Make a green statement by putting pen to handmade paper with this beautiful diary inspired by wildlife and the great outdoors. The captivating camel motif is made by intricately arranging red and yellow rose petals together in alternating patterns to create a graphic bringing the ship of the desert to life. Use it to pen your thoughts or give it away as a gift to a friend who loves to go on adventures in the wild.
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Why we like it
Gorgeous and green, this diary is a useful product with a great origin story. It is handmade using recycled materials by a collective of erstwhile women waste pickers turned skilled artists who are moving out of a life of poverty and towards financial freedom.
The Product
Product name: Floral Diary with Camel Motif Handmade by Women Artisans
Package contents: 1 Floral Diary with Camel Motif Handmade by Women Artisans
Dimensions (cms): 20 cms x 15 cms x 2.5 cms
Materials: Cardboard, Handmade paper and Dry Flowers
100 sheets made of plain, recycled paper
This captivating camel diary features a delicately handcrafted camel made using dried rose petals arranged together laboriously to embellish the cover. The red and yellow rose petals laid out in alternating patterns create a twin coloured graphic bringing the ship of the desert to life. Use it to pen your thoughts or give it away as a gift to a friend who loves to go on adventures in the wild. The black hardbound cover is sewn together in a perfect binding to ensure durability and ease of use.
The Artisans
This product has been painstakingly crafted by a collective of women in the Ghazipur slum community who formerly worked as wastepickers. The women are trained in embroidery, stitching and delicate floral art, thereby giving them the skills they need to become financially selfsufficient. Some of the women are employed in a womenrun centre in East Ghazipur where they make these unique and useful products. The making of these products transforms these women from wastepickers into skilled artisans and provides them a safe, dignified and sustainable livelihood.
Your Impact
Environmental impact
This product uses ecofriendly materials like discarded flowers and recycled material. It thus saves virgin resources and keeps hundreds of tons of used flowers from being dumped in the garbage or thrown into water bodies.
Social impact
This is more than just a beautifully crafted product. Its making has helped upskill and provide alternative employment and a stable income to more than 100 underprivileged women who were formerly engaged in wastepicking. It empowers them to move out of a life of poverty, illness and uncertainty into a life of respect and economic selfreliance.