Himalayan Fair Trade was established in April 2010 in Finland. Inspiration to start this wholesale and retail clothing company came from own parents living in Kathmandu, Nepal who have been running the clothing designing and manufacturing factory since early 2000. Nepalese garments are the products of low economic background men and women of the mountainous and Terrain parts of the country. The fa
rmers cultivate cotton plants in the West for the thread or yarn to produce cotton products. In spite of heavy rainfall and scorching sun the farmer harvest the cotton plants and spin for the production of raw cotton thread. After the collection of the bolls different sized of yarn and designed garments are produced with the help of handloom. Wool are mostly abstracted from the Yak (an cow like animal from Himalayas) and sheep which lives above 4 thousand feet above the sea level in the Himalayas of Nepal and also imported from the New Zealand, and are knitted by the women artisans at home living around the Kathmandu valley. All fabrics are natural, and dyed in different colors by hand. Different techniques are used to work on the material: The main objective is to make authentic clothes, not following other fashions, but visually very recognizable because of the use of a lot of handwork and own color choices and fabrics. We produce garment product, h**p product, woolen product and knitting product in Nepal.
