Weaving Sustainable Futures
Supporting women entrepreneurs while preserving Native communities
Purpose is in the bag
Ethical fashion that goes beyond fair trade.
Our Mission
Rooted in the belief that empowering women is the most efficient way to build a better world, One Thread Collective offers fair trade work, business training, and leadership opportunities to Indigenous Wayuu weavers in La Guajira, Colombia, helping them transcend poverty and build sustainable futures for their remote communities.
We partner with 10 remote Wayuu villages in La Guajira, Colombia.
The Wayuu are often referred to as Colombia’s “forgotten people.” Their ancestral territory, La Guajira is considered a “climate sacrifice zone” where temperature rise, rapid desertification, prolonged drought and extreme poverty threaten food security and Indigenous lifeways.
For many Wayuu women, weaving is their family's only source of income. In addition to offering fair trade income at 7x the market rate, One Thread Collective invests all profits and donations back into community-led initiatives.
What we do
Economic Empowerment for Women
We guarantee fair wages and cover all expenses so no artisan ever has to choose between feeding her children and buying yarn.
Educational Workshops
We fund in-community weaving workshops and sponsor a 10-month leadership and entrepreneurship school for the artisans run by our partners at Fundación Talento Colectivo.
Community-Led Entrepreneurship
10% of each purchase goes towards seed funding for community-led projects designed and governed by the artisans themselves.
Fashion that regenerates communities
The Wayuu weaving tradition dates back hundreds of years— creating a collective thread that links our global past, present and future.
100% of profits are reinvested back into community programs.
Collections
- Best Sellers
- Sencilla
- Única
- Diamante
- Clásica
