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 Product #5 - Wraps, by Penny Cantle

 

Zenana Women is an ethical clothing label, a social enterprise operated by women to benefit women. Our clothes are designed in Australia for Australian women and their lives. They are stitched in India, using quality fabrics and craftsmanship, and featuring the traditional hand-done embroidery of the Indian city of Lucknow.


Zenana’ is an Urdu word for the women’s quarters of a segregated household. To us it represents the constraints in the lives of women, but also the freedom they have within those limitations.

The concept of Zenana Women centres around the beautiful, traditional hand-done embroidery local to the city of Lucknow, India. In the surround villages embroidery is important to the economy; it brings people together as a community, but it also keeps them in poverty...

Click the link below to find out more or simply visit their website at www.zenanawomen.com.au.



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