Empowering One Woman At A Time
Welcome to Local Women's Handicrafts. We’re a fair trade, eco-conscious collective of women who create unique fashion and decor in Nepal. Our mission is to help empower and educate women, enabling them to write their own destiny. We provide a safe space for women who have escaped abusive practices in the textile industry and other injustices in their local communities. Our manufacturing facilities allow these women to learn new skills and crafts as a group to help heal and rehabilitate their spirits. Through raising awareness and making fashion in an ethical way, our goal is to end childhood slavery, forced marriage, and other injustices against women.
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Women Empowerment
We work in Nepal, one of the least developed countries in the world, where only 2% of women own businesses. Our production facility teaches professional skills in fiber crafts, entrepreneurship and sustainability. After completing the four-year program, the women have an option to work at the center receiving a fair salary or open their own small businesses. Our comprehensive model supports the whole woman so she can feel safe, experience self-value and heal from trauma.
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Sustainability
Our focus is on ethical fashion, we model sustainability by collaborating with local farmers and small businesses. Through offering skills development in handicraft production and literacy education, we empower women to generate their own income and support their children in a healthy and sustainable way.
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Environmentally Friendly
We grow and harvest raw materials locally and we recycle discarded materials, using 100-year-old looms that don't need any electricity. We are plastic free, cruelty free, chemicals free, and pollution free.
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Ethical Fashion
We’re working towards bringing an end to fast fashion, freeing women from sweatshops, and protecting Mother Earth. Handcrafted with love by women coming together to change the fashion industry. We’re committed to giving supply chain transparency
to our customers.

Upcycled Collection
Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world. We are buying and consuming products more than ever in our human history. We want to show that responsible consumption is possible by using discarded materials and turning them into beautiful products.
We collect left-over materials discarded from big manufacturers. We wash them 3 times, dry them, iron them and then cut them into small pieces. Using a 1000-year-old technique, we spin them and we woven them on a manual traditional 100-year-old loom that doesn’t need any electricity. By working with recycled fabrics we are contributing to making the fashion industry more sustainable.
Upcycled Collection

Hemp Collection
Hemp grows wild in Nepal, free of chemicals and nurtured with natural resources. By focusing on what is available locally, we help boost the local economy while teaching the people to be in harmony with nature. Hemp fiber is strong and durable and it's a very sustainable and environmentally friendly material.
We grow and harvest the plant locally and the entire process of growing, harvesting, weaving is done by hand. We use a 1000-year-old technique to turn that raw fiber into yarn and we woven it into fabric using a 100-year-old loom that doesn’t need any electricity. We then sew it either in its natural state and color or we hand dye it using natural dyes.
Hemp Collection
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Meet The Women
Local Women’s Handicrafts was founded in 2008 with a big goal: To lift women up who have been marginalized and exploited; to give them opportunity, skills, and a sense of dignity; and to spread our model of empowerment across the world.Â
Through the LWH entrepreneurial empowerment model, our goal is to empower 10,000 women in the world’s poorest regions by 2025 and create a textile industry that honors sustainability, human rights and dignity.