Love Handmade: A Gift of Love to the Women of Pakistan

Founded in 2020 in Islamabad, Love Handmade is a social enterprise working with 170 female home-based artisans across 10 villages in rural Sindh. The women produce ralli quilts, ajrak block-printed textiles, pit-loom woven scarves, and an expanding line of fashion apparel. But the enterprise is about far more than colorful, ethical fashion choices for buyers in New York, Tokyo, and London. It’s about the impact on communities in rural Pakistan when women start earning.

Love Handmade enables women, long excluded by cultural, geographic and economic barriers, to earn dignified, sustainable incomes from their homes. Through targeted training in soft skills, financial literacy, digital skills and formal business practices, Love Handmade helps women grow, not just as artisans, but as confident earners and community leaders.