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KHAMIR – Craft Resource Centre’s mission is to revitalize and reposition the crafts of Kachchh. The Craft Resource Centre’s Trade Facilitation Service Centre works to forge and facilitate creative partnerships between the artisan community and a global community of businesses engaged in promoting, marketing, and selling of handcrafted products made with traditional skills. It also works to enable artisans to develop a strong market and business orientation.

The Trade Facilitation Service Centre blends craft and commerce.  Our work aims to empower, redefine, and enrich Kachchh’s craft traditions while ensuring improved livelihoods and incomes for local artisans. KHAMIR’s trade facilitation benchmarks standards for quality, costing, pricing, and traditional craft authenticity. It promotes and brands Kachchh crafts through exhibitions, partnerships with retailers, re-sellers, boutiques, and fair trade initiatives. KHAMIR is committed to maintaining fair trade practices and high quality.

The Trade Facilitation Service Centre blends craft and commerce.

Trade

The KHAMIR CRC Trade Facilitation Service Centre is a one-stop solution for businesses, organisations, and institutions who want to work with the crafts of Kachchh. The service facilitates design interpretation for different market and buyer needs, customized production, merchandising, purchasing, buyer production requirements, quality production, and delivery.

In the last 3 years, KHAMIR has conducted 1.5 crore rupees of direct trade and 2.2 crore rupees of indirect trade, in addition to its artisan trade facilitation.

The KHAMIR CRC Trade Facilitation Service Centre is a one-stop solution.

Beyond Trade

KHAMIR’s Trade Facilitation Service works beyond trade.  It provides a common platform where artisans and businesses with a commitment to craft can exchange knowledge, work together to build business and technical capacities, and ensure the best manifestation of regional art and craft.  Trade is just one way that KHAMIR works to address the individual technological, market-based, ecological, socio-economic, and cultural issues that challenge the sustainability of Kachchh’s creative industries.

For more information about Kachchh craft traditions,livelihoods,challenges and opportunities, visit our Creative Industries pages or hear craft stories from local artisans.