All photography provided by Bengal Craft Society and Creative Conservation Alliance

Bengal Craft Society is a nonprofit organization which allows communities under threat to access the global market through their products.

All photography provided by Bengal Craft Society and Creative Conservation Alliance

Bengal Craft Society is a nonprofit organization which allows communities under threat to access the global market through their products.

OUR MISSION

To build a sustainable and successful craft business through community cooperatives which will in
return contribute to positive social transformation.

OUR OBJECTIVES

  • Identification, research and design, revival, development, promotion, and marketing of
    handloom and handicraft products of rural communities.
  • Organising exhibitions, participating in fairs, awareness of handloom and handicrafts and
    tribal crafts among prospective buyers locally and internationally.
  • Providing assistance to the artisans/weavers in the field of design development, quality raw
    materials and development of new Craft Collaborative Products suiting to the contemporary
    market requirement and fashion trends.
  • Creating employment opportunity/alternative income opportunity and sustainable income to
    the rural artisans/weavers, especially women.
  • Encouraging policy dialogue and implementing the schemes of the Government of
    Bangladesh, practice ethical trade including fair trade and fair wages to benefit the artisan and
    weaver communities.

OUR AIMS

  • To bring divers voices into curatorial and craft-design process
  • To develop innovative prototype through collective knowledge of crafts-people and design
    participants and collaborations
  • To conduct espouse and interactive sessions with local and international designs bringing a
    higher level of excellence to Bengal Craft Society designs and the local producers
  • Community development initiatives with strategic partners


Not only has the partnership with Bengal Craft Society been vital to our cause, but their passion and commitment ensures continued success in our conservation efforts.

— Caesar Rahman, Creative Conservation Alliance

WHAT WE’VE ACHIEVED

  • Successful partnerships with organisations
    on both ends of the production process.
  • Conducted successful workshops to
    enhance craftsmen abilities.
  • Knowledge transfer.

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  • Preservation of age old heritage craft
    techniques.
  • Creating new markets for native
    craftsmen.
  • Successful partnerships with the
    indigenous population of Bangladesh.