PHILOSOPHY
The clothes from Didi Textiles are made in the rural
areas in North Bangladesh. They are tailored by hand and crafted out of local
textile traditions. Aiming at an improved quality of life, the process is as
important as the product.
Didi Textiles is initiated by Anna Heringer as architect and Veronika Lena Lang as master tailor and is realized in cooperation with the Bangladeshi non-government organization Dipshikha for rural development.
Didi Textiles is initiated by Anna Heringer as architect and Veronika Lena Lang as master tailor and is realized in cooperation with the Bangladeshi non-government organization Dipshikha for rural development.
More than 4 millions of
people, women in particular, are living from the fabrication of textiles in
Bangladesh. The objectives of the garment sector merely is to achieve the
global standards regarding quality and labour conditions – or in other words:
to cheaply produce a perfect standardized t-shirt in safe working conditions.
But what is not considered is the wonderful and unique textile culture that
Bangladesh owns in rich diversity, nor are the global technological developments
taken in account that with great probability will replace some manual labour
soon.
This project is a
Bangladeshi-German cooperation between crafts(wo)men and designers together
with a Bangladeshi NGO for village development. It proves the possibility of an
alternative “made in Bangladesh” production: participative, sustainable,
decentralized, based on the local textile traditions, with every piece being
unique and with the purpose to improve the quality of life.
