The Spoil Me Silly Blog
"Rasa": The Allure of India's Crafts
This Diwali, read a carefully constructed essay on why I so value India's crafts, what they have meant in the development of an Indian Identity and why they must be protected in our march towards m...
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How are we integrating sustainability into our business practice? Is what we're doing enough and what more must we do? Must we do anything at all? In this post I consider how to navigate the climat...
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In this post, I ask a question I've never asked before: when we give platforms to artisans, exactly which traditions are we exemplifying? Which ones are we perpetuating? What are and who pays the ...
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Should we use a polyester lining when customers request it? And how much better are our alternatives and which should YOU buy? Ethic-ettes is a series I write about the problems small businesses ha...
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To COD or Not to COD: Delivery Options and Womanhood
How do we approach the challenges of COD? How could you help small businesses in times of uncertainty? And how does all of this result in addressing gender disparities. Read on to understand SMS' c...
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Read Below for an excerpt from a larger essay Most craft forms in India focus on stories- whether they are local/ tribal tales as found in Maharashtra’s Warli paintings or the country’s great e...
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Read Below for an excerpt from a larger essay India, as a culture, is ancient, its history spanning millennia, its stories, innumerably diverse, centuries and centuries of horizonless tradition...
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Read Below for an excerpt from a larger essay The Dyes Within Block printing in India, exist 2 types of dyes- the chemical and the natural. And it would seem plain to me which one is to be prefe...
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A History of Blockprinting in India
The history of India's domicile crafts oft has gone undocumented. The great annals of our past list only in passing the emergence and maintenance of agrarian crafts. This is not a story of emergenc...
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