Keo & The Village Weavers

Keo is our go to person for everything in Laos! She is contracted with Laos Handcraft Association (first established in 1998) as a non-profit organisation aimed at preserving and promoting traditional Laos handicrafts and artisans. We work together with Keo to create a range of beautiful products that honors their traditional artisan skills and village craftwork. While providing opportunities to develop and train in any new techniques and to ensure our textiles are of the highest quality.

Keo is a passionate cook, who grows her own vegetables in a beautiful garden and has a house full of dogs! She lives a very simple ‘Lao way of life’ and honouring her Buddhist religion.

Our aim is to support our weavers by giving them the opportunity for financial independence, and allowing them to earn an income to be able to remain within their community.

Keo and her team of Village Weavers make all of our naturally dyed hand woven cotton textiles and turn them into our beautiful tea towels, hand towel, face washers and beach towels.

jasmine & the sewing collective

Jasmine has lived and worked in Cambodia her whole life, in an HIV positive family background. She has been working and helping to support her family since she was 10 years old. In 2013 she joined her mother’s Women’s Sewing Collective supporting HIV positive families, where she learned how to sew bags and accessories.

Jasmine now runs the day to day for the Sewing Collective since her mother passed, and continues her mother’s dream to help train unemployed and HIV positive women to learn new skills and earn a rewarding wage.

The Sewing Collective in Cambodia has many talented workers, just like Nick Nick (shown) is 20 years old and has been HIV positive since she was born. Jasmine’s mother adopted Nick Nick in 2014, and taught her how to sew, she continues to live with Jasmine in Kompot.

In 2022 members of the Sewing Collective were able to study with a professional bag producer (who has a physical disability) and is a also a member of the Sewing Collective in there in Cambodia. Jasmine and her Sewing Collective make many of our accessories like our keyrings, glasses cases and cotton pouches.

Nith

I met with Nith in Phnom Pehn in 2025.  Sitting with him and watching while he hand made one of our Hammered Brass Rings was a magical moment.  Approx 10 years ago he was taught the trade of melting down brass artillery and bullet casings, turning remnants of passed war scrap into beautiful and meaningful jewellery items. He is a proud and very skilled man, working with very basic tools and in a small workshop which he built in a rented space. Nith hand crafts our full range of Brass Jewellery.

Phet

Phet and his wife Bouatong create our range of Peace Project Jewellery & Keyrings. They live in the village Ban Naphia in Xiengkhouang Province, Laos, known as the ‘spoon village’ as they originally made spoons from war scraps, bomb struts and plane parts left from the Indochina War. Phet and Bouatong cast their aluminium jewellery using a traditional method, by pouring molten aluminium into moulds made of packed sand. They then finish the pieces with sandpaper to make sure edges are smooth. These families now create a livelihood out of something that once devastated their homeland, by recycling the aluminium war scrap into a sustainable range of jewellery and souvenirs.