Fauzia's Hyderabadi Veggie Biriyani
Even on the way to the airport I start thinking about them - the wonderful biriyanis (Indian rice stews) that await me in Hyderabad. Hyderabad is not only the location of one of our three sewing wo...
Jyoti addition: Our sewing workshop in Hyderabad
We are very happy to introduce you to Jyoti’s newest addition: our sewing workshop in Hyderabad – the fourth largest city in India and capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana. For a ...
Cotton - a plant whose fiber shaped and changed the world of our ancestors. The Greek historian Herodotus of Halicarnassus reported on a wool that grew on trees, surpassed sheep's wool in bea...
Who Made Your Clothes? Halima Did!
Halima has been with Jyoti – Fair Works from the beginning. She grew up in Kurkunta, a small village an hour and a half from Chittapur by train, but moved aged 18 in order to marry. She had been...
Made in India - What does that mean?
We don't really pay attention to it, and if we do, it's only to cut it off because it's annoying. This little sewn-in piece of paper that says "made in India" [or alternatively: Bangladesh, Myan...