Hand Embroidered Journal (Red) - Created by Women Artisans from Hyderabad (200 pages)

The Product:
This journal could be your perfect place to pen down your thoughts, ideas, poems and artwork. Each book you purchase is handmade lovingly by the women of underprivileged communities in Hyderabad. Evoking traditional Mangalgiri fabric, the covers of the journal has handmade applique and kantha embroidery and is 200 pages thick. An elastic strap hooked on a wooden button will keep all your secrets safe.
The book is also a perfect gift for that blooming writer or artist you know! Go on then, fill the pages with your wonderful imaginations and let them inspire you to follow your creative calling!

Product specifications:
Dimensions 15.8 cm (L) X 19.4 cm (B).
Contents 1 hand embroidered 200 pages journal (red)
Material Mangalgiri cotton & applique work on the cover; 200 paper pages; wooden button & elastic strap for enclosure.
Note: As with all upcycled products, the colours are dependent on the available material. So your bag may differ slightly from what is shown here, but the design and overall colour will always be the same.
 
Partner story:
To provide for their families, women in urban slums often have to give up on their skills in designing, tailoring and art. Kriti Kala is empowering several such families in Hyderabad and providing them with a platform to showcase their artistic talents. The women are trained in hand embroidery as well as financial literacy and armed with an opportunity to uplift themselves.
 
These useful skills give them access to a social and occupational network. It enables them to develop a sustainable livelihood in a safe environment, improves their quality of life, and builds a sense of agency.
 
Your impact:
A purchase from Kriti Kala will help you create a twofold impact. With just one click, you are empowering the Hyderabadi slum dwellers to get a sustainable livelihood and earn a respectable income. Since each product by the organisation is made using upcycled, ecofriendly products, you are also adding a green mark in your home and reducing your carbon footprint.
 Improving livelihoods, empowering women and reducing the pollution of the environment, by opting for these products, you are making a criticala (Kriti Kala) decision!
 
Why we like it:
Even as we follow a mundane lifestyle, many brilliant ideas strike us once in a while. They could be anything artistic, entrepreneurial or notes to self. We all could use a personal journal to jot down these amazing ideas and we at TBI love this Kriti Kala journal for its rustic, traditional look and because it gives us hundreds of pages to fill with our silly, mediocre and brilliant thoughts!

Tanvi says:
It is usually during the oddest hours that the fantastic ideas strike me just when I am on the verge of falling asleep, when I am on my way to work or while cooking. As is the case with most people, I have forgotten them by the time I sit down to work on them. A journal like this could help me capture the ideas. And even if I dont work on them immediately, perhaps in the future when I go back to reading them, they will help me smile. (Also, I deeply love diaries and I have a shelf full of beautiful but empty diaries just waiting to be used!)