Generated by All in One SEO v4.8.8, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # CRC Sustainable,Ethical,Fair ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://craftresourcecenter.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [OUR WEBSHOP](https://craftresourcecenter.com/our-webshop/) - Welcome to ShopCRC A Fair Trade Marketplace by Craft Resource Center (CRC) ShopCRC.store is the online marketplace by Craft Resource Center (CRC) — a guaranteed Fair Trade Organisation dedicated to empowering artisans across India. CRC generates sustainable income for vulnerable craftspeople, ensuring fair wages, ethical production, and environmentally responsible practices. Every purchase at ShopCRC directly ## Pages - [Home](https://craftresourcecenter.com/) - Sustainable,Ethical,Fair Empowering Indian artisans through Fair Trade, CRC creates handcrafted, ethical, and sustainable products that celebrate culture and craftsmanship.CRC is a Guaranteed Fair Trade Organisation empowering Indian artisans through ethical, handcrafted, and sustainable products. - [Catalogues](https://craftresourcecenter.com/catalog/) - Our product catalogues offer a curated selection of product styles and designs. There are two catalogues published annually in Spring/Summer & Autumn/Winter. To access the latest catalogues, please send us a request. - [Contact](https://craftresourcecenter.com/contact-us/) - If you have any questions or queries, feel free to contact us. - [Our Impact](https://craftresourcecenter.com/our-impact/) - [Products](https://craftresourcecenter.com/products/) - Our products are handcrafted, using natural materials, worked on with love, by artisans driven by their passion for perfection. They create beautiful, sustainable products that represent a fusion of traditional skills and modern designs. Timeless in appeal, our products are eco-friendly and functionally designed in line with contemporary trends. - [Services](https://craftresourcecenter.com/services/) - CRC’s headquarters is used as Design Center ,Finance, Logistics and IT Center ,Quality Checking and Packing Center But the new building is more than an head office, it has been also built thinking of an artisans training, workshops and conference facilities. - [Our Journey](https://craftresourcecenter.com/our-journey/) - CRC also believes that all human beings have three basic needs to survive - income, health and education. Once a secure income is assured, only then can a person be motivated to take care of health and education. Additionally, for any social change to be successful, it has to come from the bottom, and only - [Crafts](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crafts/) ## History - [2020](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/2020/) - CRC is a self-sustained operation. It has never needed grants or donations for its activities after the conclusion of the Swiss project. CRC believes in practicing what it preaches. It led small producers by example: self-sufficiency even as it embarked on its journey to empower small producers. Today, CRC is a Guaranteed Fair Trade Organisation - [2010](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/2010/) - Many small producer groups initiated into the Fair Trade movement are now independent organisations partnering with Fair Trade buyers. They deal with buyers directly, without any CRC intervention. - [1994](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1994/) - The Swiss project officially ended in 1994 but CRC carried forward its aims and objectives. - [1991](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1991-2/) - Manoranjan Walia, after 29 years working in corporate India, steps in to advise and assist the export initiative. - [1991](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1991/) - Project succeeds in developing small groups and a product range in silk and leather. First order received from OS-3, valued at CHF 6,600. Project still in its infancy is unable to execute the large export order. - [1990](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1990-2/) - CRC is born. Main objective is to assist small groups of artisans achieve self-sufficiency and empower them to market their products, as per the needs of the Fair Trade buyers. CRC is created as a service initiative for development of crafts and its producers than a marketing organization. - [1990](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1990/) - CTM, Italy and EZA, Austria, join the project with financial contributions. Swiss Development Co-operation supports the project by setting up an India co-ordination office. Decision taken to expand the project to Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Pakistan. - [1989](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1989/) - Bernard Muller, project manager of OS-3 (a Fair Trade organisation) and Dorothea Ruesch, a journalist, initiate a project to assist small producer groups in India with financial assistance from Swiss Development Co-operation, with Irani Sen as consultant. - [1978](https://craftresourcecenter.com/history/1978/) - Irani Sen begins working within Fair Trade on socio-economic development of the underprivileged through hand-made tools and medium. ## Stories - [Empowered women](https://craftresourcecenter.com/story/empowered-women/) - Swikriti, a self-managed women’s group in Salkia, Howrah, West Bengal, started as an NGO to impart handicraft skills to women from indigent homes. They were trained in batik printing, crochet work, Kantha embroidery and tailoring to help them earn extra income. This would help them pay for their children’s education, health and improved lifestyles. The - [Saving environment](https://craftresourcecenter.com/story/saving-environment/) - This is one intervention that CRC is proud of: to save the livelihoods of Sanganer printers and the environment. Sanganer, near Jaipur, once celebrated for its artistic block printing using natural dye, was being traumatised by chemical dyes. Driven by global demand for cheap substitutes, with little concern for environment or artistry, block printing was - [Bringing down social barriers](https://craftresourcecenter.com/story/bringing-down-social-barriers/) - In the late 1989, eight young women under the leadership and guidance of Margaret Devadasan formed a group that they named Aashirwaad. Margaret, a Christian, knew a thing or two about Christmas decorations and created this unique group from all religions, cultures and caste. As they worked towards economic self-sufficiency as equals, all other differences - [Removing the middleman](https://craftresourcecenter.com/story/removing-the-middleman/) - Hira, the teenaged son of a motor mechanic, worked as a zari embroiderer in New Delhi. Overworked and underpaid, he realized that the artist was paid the least in this unfair system with the profit pocketed by the producer leader and other middlemen. He came home on leave, never to return because his uncle had - [Urban employment](https://craftresourcecenter.com/story/urban-employment/) - School was not for Riyaz, the 15-year-old who came to Kolkata and was forced to acquire formal education. He dropped out in 8th grade and chose apprenticeship under his father, a master tailor. Tailoring obviously ran in his blood and when a friend connected him with CRC, there was no stopping his talent from flowering. - [Industry Revival](https://craftresourcecenter.com/story/industry-revival/) - “Clay speaks when shaped by Dadoos.” The description fits Dadoos, a maker of elegant ceramic products in Khurja. This town in Uttar Pradesh, India, often called the “ceramics city”, was on the brink of collapse. In the 1980s, units faced closure because of acute power shortage, polluting processes and high costs. The government withdrew support ## Products - [FA01](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa01/) - [FA00](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa00/) - [ST5](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/st5/) - [ST4](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/st4/) - [ST3](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/st3/) - [ST2](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/st2/) - [ST1](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/st1/) - [ST0](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/st0/) - [HA10](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha10/) - [HA9](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha9/) - [HA8](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha8/) - [HA7](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha7/) - [HA6](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha6/) - [HA5](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha5/) - [HA4](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha4/) - [HA3](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha3/) - [HA2](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha2/) - [HA1](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/ha1/) - [FA10](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa10/) - [FA09](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa09/) - [FA08](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa08/) - [FA07](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa07/) - [FA06](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa06/) - [FA05](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa05/) - [FA04](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa04/) - [FA03](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa03/) - [FA02](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/fa02/) - [GAD05](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad05/) - [GAD04](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad04/) - [GAD03](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad03/) - [GAD02](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad02/) - [GAD01](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad01/) - [GAD07](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad07/) - [GAD06](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product/gad06/) ## Crafts - [Block Printing](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/block-printing/) - [Leather Craft](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/leather-craft/) - this is leather craft - [Embroidery](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/embroidery/) - [Weaving (Handloom)](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/weaving-handloom/) - [Handicraft](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/handicraft/) - [Screen Print](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/screen-print/) - Hello World This is Screen Print page. - [Jamowar Weaving](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/jamowar-weaving/) - [Resin jewellery](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/resin-jewellery/) - [Tailoring](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/tailoring/) - [Stationery](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/stationery/) - [Ceramics](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/ceramics/) - [Papier Mache](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/papier-mache/) - [Horn and Wood Carving](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/horn-and-wood-carving/) - [Silver Jewellery](https://craftresourcecenter.com/craft/silver-jewellery/) ## Catalogue - [Autumn/ Winter 2023](https://craftresourcecenter.com/catalogue/autumn-winter-2023/) ## Services - [Product Developer](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/product-developer/) - Throughout its journey with the producer groups, CRC has made an attempt to develop new samples regularly, widen product lines and hone creative ability in order to cater to the growing demands of the global consumer market. - [Entrepreneurship Developer](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/entrepreneurship-developer/) - Widening product possibility range and services helps improve quality of life. CRC by mentoring the producer groups and providing employment opportunities to as many people as possible is adding to the value chain of entrepreneurs in the country. - [Production Organiser](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/production-organiser/) - CRC works with multiple producers on one product so as to be able to provide as much work as possible. Diligent guidance is given to warrant maximum performance and minimum delay. The production and Quality checking and packing team schedules regular follow ups and producer group visits to ensure the same. - [Factory Manager](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/factory-manager/) - Periodic monitoring of production groups are undertaken by CRC to ensure that no harmful substances are used in production and the health of artisans are not compromised. Active initiatives are taken to maintain whatever little machinery is used in production. CRC provides financial assistance to buy machinery to marginalised producers. - [Supply Chain Manager](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/supply-chain-manager/) - CRC promotes its artisan groups whenever possible and attempts to highlight the unique-ness of the craft forms. Our designers often help the groups develop new samples that suit global demand. Guidance is given in terms of stock management and cost saving modes of shipment and production management. In addition, CRC ensures maintenance of long term - [Human Resource Developer](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/human-resource-developer/) - CRC also actively helps artisans develop and hone their inherent skills to improve performance. Apart from that, artisans without a traditional skill are mentored and trained by CRC for them to become financially independent. Artisan groups are also given financial guidance where necessary. - [Market Developer](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/market-developer/) - CRC helps various artisan groups with a well-defined growth strategy that identifies and develops new market segments for their products. A market development strategy targets non-buying customers in currently targeted segments. It also targets new customers in new segments which in another way is to expand sales through new uses for their products. - [Packaging Consultant](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/packaging-consultant/) - CRC continuously develops its know-how and expertise in packaging design and packaging logistics and capabilities to provide our customers with packaging solutions that improve their businesses. CRC is continuously in touch with the International buyer groups to understand and implement the latest packing trends, with recommendations of eco-friendly packing materials. - [Financial Consultants](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/financial-consultant/) - CRC provides financial guidance to artisan groups who often lack the ability to distil complex financial concepts into actionable strategies. From simple things to opening a bank account to complex tax filings, CRC is always there to help the artisan groups. - [Export House](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/export-house/) - CRC is a registered exporter holding a valid Export House Certificate issued by the Director General of Foreign Trade in India. CRC’s objective is to work as a simple bridge connecting the artisans to the world of international market. - [Communications Consultants](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/communication-consultant/) - CRC helps artisan groups or individual artisans to help them accomplish short or long term communications related goals. CRC helps them with specific projects, such as a new website to help an individual or artisan group develop a branding strategy. - [Turnaround Specialist](https://craftresourcecenter.com/service-post/turnaround-specialist/) - CRC has never let any producer group fade away without trying to haul them out at first. Over 30 years, CRC has successfully helped many groups, one of them being Dadoo Industries, crawl out of financial meltdown to success by marketing and promoting them. ## Categories - [Uncategorized](https://craftresourcecenter.com/category/uncategorized/) ## Categories - [Fashion accessories](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product_category/fashion-accessories/) - [Home accessories](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product_category/home-accessories/) - [Stationary](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product_category/stationary/) - [Gifts and decoratives](https://craftresourcecenter.com/crc_product_category/gifts-and-decoratives/)