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Description
Beautiful and fun light-weight cotton headbands, featuring a hidden elastic for a custom fit. Versatile styling. Wear it narrow or wear it wide. Headbands made from soft fabric that has been plant-dyed and hand-blockprinted.
Sewn in Dallas by refugee women at a nonprofit Vickery Trading.
Care: Store your accessories in a pouch, sewn by VTC’s refugee sewists. Hand wash in cold water with mild detergent. Air dry.
A note on hand-blockprinted fabric: Blockprinting is done by making prints on fabric by hand with the aid of carved wood blocks. This tradition is at least centuries old, preserved and practiced in Sindh region of Pakistan and other parts of South Asia. Some print may be smudged, or dyes (especially black or indigo) may run a little, but will stabilize after a few washes.
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Two crafts, made by hand
Each of our pieces is made with one of two techniques, by different artisans: blockprinted by hand with wooden blocks, or embroidered by hand. Many of our hair accessories are then hand-sewn in Dallas by refugee women building new lives here.
- By a third-generation blockprinter and his team in Sindh, in a 17-step process.
- Hand-blockprinted
- One thread at a time, by women artisans in Pakistan.
- Hand-embroidered
- Once pieces run out, they're restocked in 3–4 months.
- Small batches
