Woman Wax Batik Artisan in India

As modernity reaches its long hand from the urban centers of the West deep into India, the demand for block prints, hand screen prints and wax batiks made by the local people continues to shrink. Instead, the youth favors Western factory-made fashions from commercial fabrics as seen on television. ECOlunchbags with their matching stainless steel ECOlunchbox 3-in-1, which is also handmade in India, create a cultural bridge between the remote desert artisans and the forward-looking, eco consumers who purchase our line of lunchware designed to be healthy for people and the planet.

"People cannot survive on tales of tradition alone," said Sandra Ann Harris, who founded ECOlunchboxes in 2008 and previously worked for a humanitarian aid NGO in Vietnam. "There must be a vibrant market for these artisan traditions. It is a simple tale of supply and demand. No demand for the hand-worked cloth? Then, of course, production of these textile arts will dwindle and eventually disappear. These cultural and artistic traditions will be erased by cheaper fabrics from machine-printed, big-city factories."

For more information about traditional textiles from India and ECOlunchbags with napkins made from these textiles, see: http://www.ecolunchboxes.com/learn.html

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