At Woven With Hope one of our goals is to function as a sustainable, for-profit business so that we can maintain long-term, ethical impact. Our primary goals, however, are to support and empower the women who partner with us and revive ancient weaving traditions which are being lost. Most of the time, these goals all work in tandem, but in some seasons our sales are not quite adequate to match the needs of our other goals. If you care about what we are doing, but don’t feel the need to purchase more stuff, would you consider simply donating to our work?

Typically, your donations serve to maintain the holistic support we offer to our artisans:

School Fund support for high-school children of our artisans

Gatherings where holistic training is offered on mental health, finances, education, and physical health

Medical Reimbursement Funds which we are able to offer the families of our artisans because they do not have access to insurance.

However, your donations can also serve to simply fill the gap when our sales are not adequate to keep our budget balanced. They also allow us to offer prices at reduced rates for local markets which keeps our supply chain flowing which in turn provides our artisans with continued work.

Nourished Collection

Celebrating Five Years

When we launched Woven With Hope five years ago we had a storage tub full of simple wall-hangings, brand new social media accounts, and some really big dreams. While many of those dreams have not played out quite the way we imagined, it is incredible how many of them have become a reality.

·      We have online shops on Etsy and Faire, as well as our own website.

·      We have an incredible partnership with a non-profit warehouse that fills all of our orders and stores our products in the States.

·      We trained our first weaver to use a ground loom, the traditional weaving style all our artisans’ ancestors would have used.

·      We offer medical expense support to our artisans’ families and high school funds to the daughters of artisans due to generous donations.

In fact, as we look back, the only disappointment we really have is the rate of growth. We’ve stood steady at about ten artisans for nearly three years now, when there are many other women who would love to join us.

However, even in this, we’ve recently seen cause for gratitude. This year, we’ve watched other similar businesses that we had looked to as models close their doors or majorly restructure, and we recognize our very smallness has enabled us to ride out a stormy season.

As we celebrate the past five years we are SO full of gratitude for everyone who has contributed to this journey. For the people and businesses around the world who have contributed their advice and encouragement. For the incredible volunteers who have hosted events and staffed booths. For the many, many people who have bought our products and shared our story. And finally, for our incredible artisans who continue to strive to improve their craft and support their families.

This journey has been such an incredible blessing to witness.