ace&jig X Projecthrive

04/06/2025

Fairtrade Production

For Spring Summer 2025 , ace&jig has partnered with Projecthrive to create a capsule collection of crochet styles that employed 63 artisans for 2717.42 artisan workdays. This collaboration provided both economic opportunity and representation to these artisans with virtually no access to education and helped each of them provide for their families.

Crochet is hand made by female artisans who work from home in purdah. These orders are the only opportunity of income for these communities. Crochet is traditional to these communities who create ornate pieces for their wedding trousseaus using this skill. Projecthrive initiative has been capacity building and training these communities and connecting them with socially minded brand such as ace&jig since 2019.

Through the utilization of hand crochet and organic cotton rather than machine crochet and conventional cotton, we’ve reduced 2024.48 kg of CO2 emissions and removed 326.20 Kgs of Fertilizers in the production of these garments.

Through this collaboration by not using plastic bags and using GOTS organic cotton, we have saved 710 plastic bags from landfills/ oceans and saved 1,45,600 liters of waters

The clothes you buy can change lives. By buying this garment from ace&jig you are not only supporting the livelihood of artisans and ensuring that they are paid well and working in a safe environment but you are also helping preserve generational Indigenous textile techniques that would become extinct were they not supported by socially motivated brands.