For 7 amazing years, TAMMACHAT has visited and worked with more
than a dozen weaving co-ops, social enterprises, certified fair trade
businesses and family weaving groups in Thailand and Laos.
Our heartfelt thanks go out to the hundreds of women weavers who welcomed us into
partnership to preserve their artistic and cultural traditions, to
enhance the status of women and to create additional income for rural
families.
Now it's time for a change. Read more...
But first, we invite you to join us for our final big show of 2014 in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia: Oct. 3-5, 2014, during the Great Scarecrow Festival & Antique Show. More details...
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Join TAMMACHAT at the Fair Trade Bazaar, May 10-11, 2014 in Halifax, Nova Scotia!
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Join us at Nova Scotia’s most unique Fair Trade Bazaar! Come explore the rich and exotic variety of fairly traded goods -- from natural textiles and jewellery to felted carpets and textile art to women's accessories, handbags and home wares. Celebrate Mother's Day and World Fair Trade Day by supporting local Nova Scotian businesses that practice globally conscious trade with cooperatives and other groups in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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Fair Trade Bazaar a huge success
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Poster by www.forestfriend.ca |
The event was co-organized by TAMMACHAT co-founder Ellen Agger and Little Foot Yurt co-owner Selene Cox to bring together 5 local, Canadian fair trade businesses that practice globally conscious trade with co-operatives and other groups in Central and Southeast Asia, Africa and Central America. We were thrilled with the response and interest in fair trade and supporting local businesses with a global conscience.
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Little Foot Yurts Nova Scotian-built shelters offering rentals, sales and educational workshops |
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We had fun all weekend! Alleson from TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles |
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TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles Eco-friendly fashion accessories and home décor from women’s weaving groups in Thailand and Laos |
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Fibre Fixation Yarns and tools from communities around the globe for textile artists and artisans |
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Little Foot Yurts Shyrdak (felted carpets) from a women’s co-operative in Kyrgyzstan |
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African Threads Textiles and bead work from African women’s groups |
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Just Us! Specialty teas, coffees, chocolates and sugar |
Support for TAMMACHAT in the Nova Scotia Legislature
When we returned to Canada late in March, we were surprised and pleased to find this resolution in our large pile of mail. It was drafted and read by our Member of the Legislative Assembly in Nova Scotia, Pam Birdsall, on Dec. 13, 2011 in the Nova Scotia Legislature.
Thank you, Pam, for making public the challenges faced by people in Thailand in the dramatic and destructive floods this past fall. We very much appreciate this gesture of support.
From the records of The Nova Scotia Legislature:
RESOLUTION NO. 3073
Thank you, Pam, for making public the challenges faced by people in Thailand in the dramatic and destructive floods this past fall. We very much appreciate this gesture of support.
From the records of The Nova Scotia Legislature:
DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS
Third Session
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
RESOLUTION NO. 3073
By: Ms. Pam Birdsall « » (Lunenburg)
I hereby give notice that on a future day I shall move the adoption of the following resolution:
Whereas Thailand has experienced some of the worst floods in the last 50 years, losing as much as 15 per cent of their rice crop, causing the disruption of factory operations, and causing widespread unemployment and hardship; and
Whereas Alleson Kase and Ellen Agger of Mahone Bay are the co-owners of TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles, a fair trade company that supports women artisans in Laos and Thailand; and
Whereas TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles is providing much-needed additional income for women and families living in flooded areas of Thailand through fair trade;
Therefore be it resolved that this House of Assembly commend Alleson Kase and Ellen Agger of TAMMACHAT Natural Textiles, and wish them safe travels as they return to Thailand to continue to work with women's artisan groups in that country.
[Note: We donated 10% of all sales from our November shows in Nova Scotia to help women in Thailand. See our blog post of Jan. 13, 2012.]
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March 31: South Shore Sustainability EXPO
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 from 9:30am-2pm, join TAMMACHAT at the South Shore Sustainability EXPO
at the Nova Scotia Community College in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. This
inaugural event is co-hosted by the Community Sustainability Network,
Bridgewater & Area.
- Visit TAMMACHAT's booth to find fresh, new textiles from our recent trip to Thailand and Laos.
- Learn how you can address local and global issues through fair trade.
- Hear Chris Benjamin (author of Eco-Innovators -- Sustainability in Atlantic Canada) give the lunch keynote address.
- Discover businesses and organizations in our area concerned with and working towards sustainability.
- Visit the Community Sustainability Network to learn more, to join and to connect.
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