AMMA

 

January 2020 - May 2022

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AMMA Sri Lanka was a social enterprise which employed women in the Nuwara Eliya region of Sri Lanka in making handwoven, plant dyed textiles. This rare and beautiful endeavour sought to make ethical textiles and provide livelihoods to a multi generational, highly talented group of women.

 

I was invited to spend a month with them in which I designed a zero waste capsule collection which AMMA could call its own, teaching and learning with the team to manage production. It was later launched as part of a successful kickstarter campaign to raise funds to continue the enterprise. I worked with AMMA for two years coordinating production and working with the founder Josie Mackenzie on the overall vision.

 

While the enterprise eventually wasn't able to sustain itself, its values and examples continue and I hold them close in my own ideals for the future of our textile industry; to see the elements and colours of a landscape in simmering dye pots, colouring yarns ready for the loom that clatters in the next room.