Lila Ralli Quilts – a group of Artisans from South Asia

 

Lila Ralli Quilts —is an initiative of a groups of Artisans, mostly women, of Thar desert to find out work for them from international buyers, preferably Fair Trade Stores, Retail Stores.

We shall prefer to accept wholesale order for our products with reference to each style and design available on our website. We wish long term business relationship with our buyers as we plan to make each artisan of our group economically capable to send her children to school and provide adequate education and health facilities.

We also plan to introduce Group Insurance for all our artisans and build a small home for each of them from sale proceeds of their work in long term. Lila Ralli Quilts strictly follows the Fair Trade practices. Our four dozen artisans are related to each other by way of blood relations and marriages and are spread in four villages.

Lila Ralli Quilts hopes that the fair trade and craft world will accept it in their fold with open arms.

Dev Valasai  – ralliquilt @ gmail.com
Lila Ralli Quilts
Valasai Colony, Kaloi
Tehsil Diplo District Tharparker
Sindh
PAKISTAN
Phone: +92 233 511233
Cell: +92 333 3686426

What is a Ralli Quilt?

A normal  Ralli Quilt is a textile jewel finished with physical and spiritual labour or done with hand and mind putting in almost 180 hours, 10800 minutes or 648,000 seconds of labour by a woman artisan. In ancient Indus civilization, a Ralli Quilt was also a textile currency like other valuables.

Woman start making Ralli Quilts in early age as part of their dowry. The poor artisans used to make Ralli Quilt as gifts for the occasion of marriages and births of the elite families. In return, they were given a buffalow, a cow or a goat as “Kheer Piyarini” or to provide a permanent milk source for the artisan’s family. This tradition continues in Sindh, especially in Thar desert too.

Lila Ralli Quilts is an initiative launched in cooperation with some Fair Trade Shops in the world to give an international exposure to the illiterate artisans living in stark poverty conditions in villages dotting the desert. The textile craft lovers can now order the Ralli Quilt artisans living thousands of miles away to make a dream piece for them while sitting in their offices or homes. It is just a rebirth of “Kheer Piyarini” tradition.

You can order now Ralli Quilt Gift Sets for a baby before his birth or for the wedding of your loved ones. Let the Thar desert artisans also share this beautiful world.

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