Mehera Shaw Foundation Trust is a registered trust in Rajasthan, India whose mission is to support artisan development projects through upcycling, mentoring, skills building, livelihood generation and environmental sustainability measures.

1. H/61 A Meera Marg
Bani Park, Jaipur
302 016 INDIA
ph: +91 141 410 1636
info(at)meherashaw.com
www.meherashaw.com
Join Us!
If you are interested in and passionate about
development projects with textile/craft artisans, MSF
welcomes you to join hands with us. You can support us
by becoming a volunteer, mentor or trainer, or by
promoting our artisan product and development
programmes among your friends, colleagues and
communities. As a volunteer or intern, we will provide
free intensive training and project support to you as well
as in depth practical experience in the textile craft and
development sector. It is an excellent opportunity to help
empower artisans. Join us in helping artisans to help
themselves.
Mehera Shaw Foundation is a non-profit
organization that catalyzes sustainable livelihood for
artisans engaged in artisan’s fabric craft and textile sector
value chain by empowering them to establish dignity and
create community-based livelihood through enhancing
their artisanal and business skills. Our goal is to develop
trend-driven collections of artisan fabrics for sale and
become known for the beauty of the fabric and textile
surface design by using the artisan’s knowledge,
traditional skills and experience.
MSF encourages sustainability and provides a dignified life
to the artisans and people involved in craft fabric / textile
value chain by assuring them of fair trade practices,
ethical leadership, social values, mutual respect, trust,
financial security and human touch. We aim to provide
artisans with a voice and a platform for improving the
quality of their lives and most importantly give them
collective strength to combat exploitive practices of
middle men by involving them in transparent business
value chain.
sustainable
artisan
development
Partnering
product development
an integrated philosophy
Mehera Shaw Foundation works in an integrated and fully
transparent manner with Mehera Shaw Textiles Pvt. Ltd.,
to help people help themselves without discrimination.
Our philosophy is one of emancipation through work, skill
building, dignity. The focus is on the artisan textile sector
in India, in making viable, high-quality products for both
the Indian and foreign market. We also emphasize cradle-
to-cradle design and implementation, renewable energy,
resource building and transparency throughout the value
chain.
Mehera ShawTextiles Pvt. Ltd. a fair trade garment
production company and high-end fashion label. Both
MST and MSF together are an integrated, a vertical
business which assures product quality, supply chain
reliability, provides skills training for workers, and
maintains fair trade standards of business, transparent
communication, and ecological standards of production.
Mehera Shaw believes in integrating both our Private
Limited company with our non-profit development
foundation. We see an integrated, vertical business model
as the strongest approach to offering a high-quality, value
added product to both the high-end women’s market and
the rising middle-class market. The value-added
component is a fundamental strength--it is the human
factor--jobs creation, skills building training for rural
artisans, fair trade labour standards, supporting improved
sustainability in garment production and reducing
environmental waste.
Visit Us!
Buy our products either retail or
wholesale. We have a retail
shop and wholesale showroom
at our Jaipur location. We can
also provide a list of available
products for purchase via
online sales.

2. projects
and structure
product
development &
skill building
Train and enhance skills
among rural and urban
artisans, especially
women, creating
employment by linking
up with the textile/craft
sector, developing
specific upcycling
projects, offering product
design and QC training,
and ongoing skills-based
mentoring.
health &
education
promote and support
basic health and
education requirements
among artisan
communities.
development
solutions
improve drinking water,
and water treatment
within the textiles
industry, promote
improved environmental
standards and solar
energy products and
sustainable organic
agriculture practices
market/resource
network
Cradle-to-cradle
sustainability: provide
connections throughout
the supply chain from
artisan to end consumer.
Dr. Vijay Pagare, Director of
Development, joins us with a doctorate in
Public Administration, a M.S.W. from
TISS, and more than a decade of
experience as a director working with
non-profits who support social
enterprises; he has worked at every level
from the field to policy and management.
Dr. Shari Keller, Managing Director of
and designer for Mehera Shaw Textiles,
has been working with disadvantaged
artisan groups, sustainable garment
production as well as issues of Fair
Trade Trade and supply chain viability
since 1997.
Shri Madanlal Bunkar, Director of
Production for Mehera Shaw Textiles has
more than a decade of experience
working developing patterns and working
with artisan textiles, local block prints and
crafts of the Jaipur region.
"Helping Artisans
to Help Themselves"
--MSF Philosophy
our philosophy
humanity-work-dignity
artisan
development
Even with good environmental and labour standards,
garment production historically generates much scrap
fabric.
Upcycling is the process of converting leftover
materials into new materials or products of better quality
or for better environmental value. Mehera Shaw
Foundation intends to make productive use of this scrap
through an ongoing upcycling project and artisan skill -
building program. MSF trains artisans to make both
beautiful and marketable, high quality textile products
from production leftover scrap fabric such as those shown
here.
upcycling
textile
project