About Ohrna

Embrace an organic lifestyle through Ohrna! Ohrna was born of a dream to use eco-friendly materials to conserve the beauty of handmade traditions while creating work to benefit homebound women who have not had an opportunity at employment. Ohrna believes in working with compassion, for the earth and its people - have done and always will! Our products combine jute with beautiful cotton fabrics and are lined not with plastic as is common practice, but with the same fabric. Ohrna patronizes jute because it is a vegetable fiber, naturally decomposable and durable. The Ikat and Tie dye Bandhni cottons we use are regional fabrics made by artisans at home. Our products are handmade in the homes of our makers and hand embroidered in Kantha stitch. We train for free, housemaids, housewives and farmers, often from rural settings. We provide them all the materials and pay them to work from home while balancing their home-fronts, as they learn and grow. This process, that steps them from a learner, to a maker and then on to become an artisan is a long and arduous one, but one that is life changing for her. We take great joy in introducing embroidered jute to western markets! We are also a zero-waste company and use leftovers of our process to make products like dolls, luggage tags and bookmarks. And our products are all packaged in beautiful up-cycled saris! An article on Ohrna that you may like to read: www.starterstory.com/start-sustainable-handmade-lifestyle-productsRead their story